--- title: Desert foxes have big ears that help them lose heat, while Arctic fo… — Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sw… · tree and pragmatics description: Desert foxes have big ears that help them lose heat, while Arctic foxes have small ears that keep heat in. Who acts: Desert foxes, big ears, ears, Arctic foxes. 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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 (Desert foxes, big ears, ears, Arctic foxes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:025-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool.lesson:16 # text = Desert foxes have big ears that help them lose heat, while Arctic foxes have small ears that keep heat in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 025-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool.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 ×2 1 Desert desert ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod 2 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Desert foxes | big ears | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 2 | **help** | present | big ears | ears *= ear* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **lose** | infinitive | ears *= ear* *not said here* | heat | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality | | 4 | **have** | present | Arctic foxes | small ears | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 5 | **keep in** | present | small ears | heat | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | 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. 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