The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth, sentence 0
The Arctic Ocean lies around the North Pole under a lid of floating sea ice that grows in winter and shrinks in summer, and the animals there live on, under and around that lid.
Who acts: Arctic Ocean, floating sea ice, animals · What happens: lie, float, grow, shrink, live · To what, where: North Pole, lid
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» 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 (Arctic Ocean, floating sea ice, animals), 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 | 3 Ocean | det |
| 2 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ocean | compound |
| 3 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 Pole | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pole | det |
| 7 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Pole | compound |
| 8 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | obl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 lid | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lid | det |
| 11 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ice | case |
| 13 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 ice | amod |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ice | compound |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lid | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 grows | nsubj |
| 17 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ice | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 winter | case |
| 19 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grows | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shrinks | cc |
| 21 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 grows | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 summer | case |
| 23 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shrinks | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 live | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 live | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 animals | det |
| 27 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 live | nsubj |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 animals | advmod |
| 29 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lies | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 lid | case |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 on | punct |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 36 lid | case |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 around | cc |
| 34 | around | around | ADP | _ | 32 under | conj |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 lid | det |
| 36 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 live | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the Arctic Ocean | the North Pole | under a lid of floating sea ice | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around pole=Location | |||
| 2 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | grow | present | floating sea ice | winter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shrink | present | floating sea ice not said here | summer | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | live | present | the animals | that lid | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lid=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:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.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): 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.
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