--- title: Arctic animals are built like thermos flasks: thick fur and fat, sma… — The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world · tree and pragmatics description: Arctic animals are built like thermos flasks: thick fur and fat, small ears, short legs and snouts, and tricks like sleeping under a bushy tail or living in tunnels under the snow blanket. Who acts: tricks. 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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 (tricks), 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:2 # text = Arctic animals are built like thermos flasks: thick fur and fat, small ears, short legs and snouts, and tricks like sleeping under a bushy tail or living in tunnels under the snow blanket. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 thermos thermos NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 flasks flask NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 snouts snout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 24 like like SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 sleeping sleep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 26 under under ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 bushy bushy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 under under ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present · passive | | Arctic animals | | | | like thermos flasks and tricks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **sleep** | gerund | tricks *not said here* | | | a bushy tail | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** | gerund | tricks *not said here* | | | tunnels | | under the snow blanket | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tunnel=Location | 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: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): R3-conj-first ×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…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/0/) - next →: [The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/)