Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 0

Antarctica is a frozen continent around the South Pole, colder and windier than anywhere else on Earth, with almost no land animals, while the sea around it is crowded with life.

Who acts: Antarctica, sea · What happens: be · To what, where: frozen continent, South Pole

This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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 (Antarctica, sea), 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	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 continent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 continent	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 continent	det
4	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 continent	amod
5	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	around	around	ADP	_	9 Pole	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Pole	det
8	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Pole	compound
9	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 continent	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 colder	punct
11	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 continent	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 windier	cc
13	windier	windy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 colder	conj
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 anywhere	case
15	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 windier	advmod
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 anywhere	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 Earth	case
18	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 windier	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 continent	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 animals	case
21	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 animals	advmod
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 animals	det
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 animals	compound
24	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 continent	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 continent	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 crowded	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crowded	nsubj
29	around	around	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sea	nmod
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 crowded	cop
32	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 continent	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 life	case
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crowded	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 continent	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	is a	present	Antarctica	a frozen continent		the South Pole		with no land animals	tree rules
2	is	present	the sea around Pole					with life; crowded property	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:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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