Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 12
Polar bears live only in the Arctic in the north and penguins live in the southern half of the world, so they never meet in the wild.
Who acts: Polar bears, penguins · What happens: live, not meet · To what, where: Arctic, southern half, wild
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 (Polar bears, penguins), 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 | Polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bears | amod |
| 2 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 live | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Arctic | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Arctic | det |
| 7 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 north | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 north | det |
| 10 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Arctic | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 live | cc |
| 12 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 live | nsubj |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 half | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 half | det |
| 16 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 half | amod |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 live | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 half | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 meet | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 meet | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 meet | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 meet | advmod |
| 25 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 wild | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wild | det |
| 28 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meet | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Polar bears | the Arctic in the north | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | penguins | the southern half of the world | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in half=Location | ||||
| 3 | not meet | present | penguins = penguin | the wild | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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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