--- title: Lemmings spend the winter in tunnels under the snow, which traps air… — The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world · tree and pragmatics description: Lemmings spend the winter in tunnels under the snow, which traps air like a blanket; the story that they jump off cliffs together is a myth helped by a faked 1958 film. Who acts: Lemmings, snow, story. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» of the biology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/) / 15 # The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world, sentence 15 Lemmings spend the winter in tunnels under the snow, which traps air like a blanket; the story that they jump off cliffs together is a myth helped by a faked 1958 film. **Who acts:** Lemmings, snow, story · **What happens:** spend, trap, jump off, be, help, fake · **To what, where:** tunnels, air, cliffs, myth 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 (Lemmings, snow, story), 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:15 # text = Lemmings spend the winter in tunnels under the snow, which traps air like a blanket; the story that they jump off cliffs together is a myth helped by a faked 1958 film. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 under under ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 traps trap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 jump jump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 off off ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 29 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 faked fake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 33 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:agent _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | present | Lemmings | | | tunnels | winter | under the snow | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **trap** | present | the snow | air | | | | like a blanket | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | | 3 | **jump off** | present | lemmings *= lemming* | cliffs | | | | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory | | 4 | **is a** | present | the story | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | participle | | a myth *not said here* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fake** | participle | | | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:15`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/14/) - next →: [The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/)