--- title: When wolves come, musk oxen form a ring with horns out and calves in… — The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world · tree and pragmatics description: When wolves come, musk oxen form a ring with horns out and calves in the middle, and their woolly underfur, qiviut, is said to be about eight times warmer than sheep's wool. Who acts: wolves, musk oxen. 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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 (wolves, musk oxen), 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:13 # text = When wolves come, musk oxen form a ring with horns out and calves in the middle, and their woolly underfur, qiviut, is said to be about eight times warmer than sheep's wool. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 musk musk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 oxen oxen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 form form VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 out out ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 calves calf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 underfur underfur NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 qiviut qiviut NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 xcomp _ _ 34 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | wolves | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **form** | present | musk oxen | a ring | | | | with horns in the middle and calves | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | horns's woolly underfur | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | time | than sheep's wool; warm *property* | tree rules | 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:006-the-arctic.lesson:13`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/12/) - next →: [The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/)