The polar zone: polar bears, sentence 3
Adverts show polar bears sipping fizzy drinks and cartoons put them next to penguins, but real polar bears hardly drink at all and live in the Arctic, at the opposite end of the Earth from wild penguins.
Who acts: Adverts, polar bears, cartoons, real polar bears · What happens: show, sip, put, drink, live · To what, where: polar bears, fizzy drinks, drinks, all, Arctic · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: polar bears» of the biology 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 (Adverts, polar bears, cartoons, real polar bears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adverts | advert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bears | amod |
| 4 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obj |
| 5 | sipping | sip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 bears | acl |
| 6 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 drinks | amod |
| 7 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sipping | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cartoons | cc |
| 9 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | ccomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | next | next | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 10 put | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 penguins | case |
| 14 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drink | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 drink | cc |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bears | amod |
| 18 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bears | amod |
| 19 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 drink | nsubj |
| 20 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 21 drink | advmod |
| 21 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 drink | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 live | cc |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 drink | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Arctic | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Arctic | det |
| 28 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 live | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 end | punct |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 end | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 end | det |
| 32 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 end | amod |
| 33 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 live | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Earth | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Earth | det |
| 36 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 end | nmod |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 penguins | case |
| 38 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 penguins | amod |
| 39 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 end | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Adverts | polar bears | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sip | gerund | polar bears not said here | fizzy drinks | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | past | cartoons | drinks = drink | to penguins; next property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | |||
| 4 | drink | present | real polar bears | all | hardly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | live | present | real polar bears not said here | the Arctic | at the opposite end of the Earth from wild penguins | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location |
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, 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:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears.lesson:3.
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.
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