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title: Some animals stay active in winter by storing food, growing thicker… — Migration and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: Some animals stay active in winter by storing food, growing thicker fur or changing colour. Who acts: animals. 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 16

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Some animals stay active in winter by storing food, growing thicker fur or changing colour.

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**Who acts:** animals · **What happens:** stay, store, grow, change · **To what, where:** food, thicker fur, colour

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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), 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:16
# text = Some animals stay active in winter by storing food, growing thicker fur or changing colour.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj
3	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	storing	store	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp
12	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
16	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **stay** | present | some animals |  |  |  | winter | active *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **store** | gerund | some animals *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | some animals *not said here* | thicker fur |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fur=Theme |
| 4 | **change** | gerund | some animals *not said here* | colour |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

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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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**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:world:028-migration-and-hibernation.lesson:16`.

**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 ×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/).

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