The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 9

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current flows round Antarctica and is the strongest ocean current in the world, carrying many times more water than all the world's rivers together.

Who acts: Antarctic Circumpolar Current · What happens: flow, be, carry · To what, where: strongest ocean current, world, more water

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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 (Antarctic Circumpolar Current), 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	4 Current	det
2	Antarctic	Antarctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Current	compound
3	Circumpolar	Circumpolar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Current	compound
4	Current	Current	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 flows	nsubj
5	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	round	round	ADP	_	7 Antarctica	case
7	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 flows	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 current	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 current	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 current	det
11	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 current	amod
12	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 current	compound
13	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flows	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 current	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carrying	punct
18	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 flows	acl
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 times	amod
20	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 more	obl:unmarked
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 water	amod
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carrying	obj
23	than	than	ADP	_	28 rivers	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 world	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rivers	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 world	case
28	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carrying	obl
29	together	together	ADV	_	18 carrying	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flow	present	the Antarctic Circumpolar Current			round Antarctica	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	the Antarctic Circumpolar Current not said here	the strongest ocean current	the world		tree rules
3	carry	gerund		more water		than all world's rivers; together property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:9.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1. 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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