The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 0

The tundra is the flat, treeless land around the Arctic Ocean: frozen and dark for months in winter, and in summer bright day and night, boggy and buzzing with mosquitoes.

Who acts: tundra · What happens: be, buzz · To what, where: flat treeless land, Arctic Ocean

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» 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 (tundra), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tundra	det
2	tundra	tundra	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 land	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 land	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 land	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flat	punct
7	treeless	treeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 land	amod
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	around	around	ADP	_	12 Ocean	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Ocean	det
11	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ocean	compound
12	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 land	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 frozen	punct
14	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 land	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dark	cc
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 frozen	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 months	case
18	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 frozen	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 winter	case
20	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 frozen	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 boggy	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 boggy	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 day	case
24	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 day	compound
25	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 day	amod
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 boggy	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 night	cc
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 day	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 day	punct
30	boggy	boggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 frozen	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 buzzing	cc
32	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 boggy	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 mosquitoes	case
34	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 buzzing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 land	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the tundra	the flat treeless land		the Arctic Ocean			tree rules
2	buzz	gerund	the tundra not said here					with mosquitoes	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with mosquito=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, 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:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.lesson:0.

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. 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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