--- title: Animals also dodge the heat: they hide in burrows by day, come out a… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics description: Animals also dodge the heat: they hide in burrows by day, come out at night, lift their feet off scorching sand or carry big ears that give off heat like radiators. Who acts: Animals, big ears. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Animals, big ears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:005-the-desert.lesson:2 # text = Animals also dodge the heat: they hide in burrows by day, come out at night, lift their feet off scorching sand or carry big ears that give off heat like radiators. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 005-the-desert.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 dodge dodge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 burrows burrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 14 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 lift lift VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 off off ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 scorching scorch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 amod _ _ 24 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 26 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 32 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obl 33 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 radiators radiator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dodge** | present | Animals | the heat | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent heat=Location | | 2 | **hide** | present | Animals *= animal* | | | burrows | day | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in burrow=Location | | 3 | **come out** | infinitive | Animals *not said here* | | | | night | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **lift** | present | Animals *not said here* | Animals's feet | | scorching sand | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme off sand=Destination | | 5 | **scorch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **carry** | present | Animals *not said here* | big ears | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 7 | **give off** | present | big ears | heat | | | | like radiators | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source heat=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:005-the-desert.lesson:2`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The desert: living with little water, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/1/) - next →: [The desert: living with little water, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/)