--- title: The Arctic fox sleeps with its bushy tail over its nose, has small e… — The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world · tree and pragmatics description: The Arctic fox sleeps with its bushy tail over its nose, has small ears, short legs and very thick fur, and turns white in winter and brown or grey in summer, so it matches the snow or the bare ground. Who acts: Arctic fox, fox. 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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 (Arctic fox, fox), 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:7 # text = The Arctic fox sleeps with its bushy tail over its nose, has small ears, short legs and very thick fur, and turns white in winter and brown or grey in summer, so it matches the snow or the bare ground. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 bushy bushy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 matches match VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 45 . . 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 | **sleep** | present | the Arctic fox | | | | | with fox's bushy tail over fox's nose | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present | the Arctic fox *not said here* | small ears and short legs and thick fur | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 3 | **turn** | present | the Arctic fox *not said here* | | | | winter | white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **match** | present | fox | the snow or the bare ground | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Patient | 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:7`. **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): R6-punct-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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/6/) - next →: [The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/)