The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer, sentence 14
Some zoos keep Antarctic penguins such as king and gentoo penguins in chilled rooms with artificial snow and lights that copy Antarctic days and nights; Edinburgh Zoo's king penguin Sir Nils Olav is an honorary officer in the Norwegian army.
Who acts: zoos, artificial snow, Sir Nils Olav · What happens: keep, chill, copy, be · To what, where: Antarctic penguins, chilled rooms, honorary officer, Norwegian army
This is a sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» 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 (zoos, artificial snow, Sir Nils Olav), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 zoos | det |
| 2 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Antarctic | Antarctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 penguins | amod |
| 5 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 8 king | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 penguins | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 penguins | cc |
| 10 | gentoo | gentoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | conj |
| 11 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 king | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 rooms | case |
| 13 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 rooms | amod |
| 14 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 snow | case |
| 16 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 snow | amod |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rooms | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lights | cc |
| 19 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 snow | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 copy | nsubj |
| 21 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 snow | acl:relcl |
| 22 | Antarctic | Antarctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 days | amod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 copy | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 nights | cc |
| 25 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 days | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 27 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 penguin | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Edinburgh | flat |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Zoo | case |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 penguin | compound |
| 31 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Olav | nsubj |
| 32 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Olav | compound |
| 33 | Nils | Nils | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Olav | compound |
| 34 | Olav | Olav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 officer | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 officer | cop |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 officer | det |
| 37 | honorary | honorary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 officer | amod |
| 38 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | parataxis |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 army | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 army | det |
| 41 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 army | amod |
| 42 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 officer | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | some zoos | Antarctic penguins | chilled rooms with artificial snow and lights | such king and gentoo and penguins | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent penguin=Theme in room=Location | ||
| 2 | chill | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | copy | present | artificial snow and lights | day | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | Sir Nils Olav | a honorary officer | the Norwegian army | tree rules |
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:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.lesson:14.
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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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