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title: Snowy owls often hunt in daylight on the tundra; one may eat more th… — The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world · tree and pragmatics
description: Snowy owls often hunt in daylight on the tundra; one may eat more than 1,500 lemmings in a year, and they lay more eggs when lemmings are plentiful. Who acts: Snowy owls, one, owls, lemmings. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» of the biology course of Mova's 
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# The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world, sentence 11

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Snowy owls often hunt in daylight on the tundra; one may eat more than 1,500 lemmings in a year, and they lay more eggs when lemmings are plentiful.

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**Who acts:** Snowy owls, one, owls, lemmings · **What happens:** hunt, eat, lay, be · **To what, where:** daylight, 1,500 lemmings, more eggs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snowy owls, one, owls, lemmings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:006-the-arctic.lesson:11
# text = Snowy owls often hunt in daylight on the tundra; one may eat more than 1,500 lemmings in a year, and they lay more eggs when lemmings are plentiful.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 006-the-arctic.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tundra	tundra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:Number=Sing|PronType=Ind
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | Snowy owls |  |  | daylight |  | on the tundra; often *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in daylight=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | may | one | 1,500 lemmings |  |  | year |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemming=Patient |
| 3 | **lay** | present | owls *= owl* | more eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
| 4 | **is** | present | lemmings |  |  |  |  | plentiful *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:006-the-arctic.lesson:11`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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/).

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