The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth, sentence 12

Arctic sea ice is shrinking because the world is getting warmer, and some polar bears now have to swim much longer distances, sometimes for days.

Who acts: Arctic sea ice, world, polar bears · What happens: shrink, get, have, swim · To what, where: longer distances

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 sea ice, world, 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	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ice	amod
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ice	compound
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shrinking	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shrinking	aux
5	shrinking	shrink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 getting	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 getting	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 getting	aux
10	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 shrinking	advcl
11	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 getting	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 bears	det
15	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bears	amod
16	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
17	now	now	ADV	_	18 have	advmod
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shrinking	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 swim	mark
20	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	xcomp
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 longer	advmod
22	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 distances	amod
23	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 swim	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 days	punct
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	27 days	advmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 days	case
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 swim	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shrinking	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	present · progressive	Arctic sea ice				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	get	present · progressive	the world			warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	present	some polar bears		now		tree rules
4	swim	to-infinitive	some polar bears not said here	longer distances	day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory

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:12.

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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