Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 14

Only two kinds of flowering plants grow in Antarctica, and its lichens and mosses grow so slowly that some patches are hundreds of years old.

Who acts: two kinds, lichens, patches · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: Antarctica

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 (two kinds, lichens, patches), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kinds	nummod
3	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grow	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 plants	case
5	flowering	flowering	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plants	amod
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kinds	nmod
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Antarctica	case
9	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grow	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grow	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grow	cc
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lichens	nmod:poss
13	lichens	lichen	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grow	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mosses	cc
15	mosses	moss	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lichens	conj
16	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grow	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 slowly	advmod
18	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	16 grow	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 old	mark
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 patches	det
21	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 old	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 old	cop
23	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 old	obl:unmarked
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 years	case
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hundreds	nmod
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grow	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	two kinds of flowering plants	Antarctica		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in antarctica=Location
2	grow	present	midge's lichens and mosses		slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	some patches		hundreds of years obl:unmarked; old 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:14.

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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