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title: Before hibernating, animals eat a lot to store fat, which keeps them… — Migration and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: Before hibernating, animals eat a lot to store fat, which keeps them alive through the winter. Who acts: animals, fat. A sentence of the lesson «Migration and hibernation» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Migration and hibernation, sentence 12

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Before hibernating, animals eat a lot to store fat, which keeps them alive through the winter.

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**Who acts:** animals, fat · **What happens:** hibernate, eat, store, keep · **To what, where:** lot, fat, animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration and hibernation» of the world 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 (animals, fat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:028-migration-and-hibernation.lesson:12
# text = Before hibernating, animals eat a lot to store fat, which keeps them alive through the winter.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 028-migration-and-hibernation.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): no change
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	store	store	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hibernate** | gerund | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | present | animals | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
| 3 | **store** | to-infinitive | animals *not said here* | fat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | present | fat | animals *= animal* |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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/).

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