--- title: Reindeer, called caribou in North America, have broad hooves for sno… — The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world · tree and pragmatics description: Reindeer, called caribou in North America, have broad hooves for snow and ice, dig for lichen in winter, and their eyes change from gold in summer to blue in winter. Who acts: Reindeer, eyes. 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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 (Reindeer, eyes), 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:9 # text = Reindeer, called caribou in North America, have broad hooves for snow and ice, dig for lichen in winter, and their eyes change from gold in summer to blue in winter. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 4 caribou caribou NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 hooves hoof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 lichen lichen NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 35 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | Reindeer *not said here* | caribou | | North America | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present | Reindeer | broad hooves | | | | for snow and ice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoof=Patient | | 3 | **dig** | present | Reindeer *not said here* | | | | winter | for lichen | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for lichen=Theme | | 4 | **change** | present | hooves's eyes | | | gold | summer; winter | to blue *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from gold=Initial\_State to blue=Result | 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:9`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/8/) - next →: [The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/)