Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth, sentence 17

Scott's and Shackleton's huts still stand after over 100 years because cold and dryness stop rotting, and no people live in Antarctica permanently, only scientists and support staff.

Who acts: huts, cold, people · What happens: stand, stop, rot, live · To what, where: scientists, Antarctica

This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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 (huts, cold, people), 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	Scott	Scott	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 huts	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Scott	case
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Shackleton	cc
4	Shackleton	Shackleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Scott	conj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Shackleton	case
6	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stand	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 stand	advmod
8	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	over	over	ADV	_	11 100	advmod
11	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stand	obl
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 stop	mark
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stop	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dryness	cc
16	dryness	dryness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cold	conj
17	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stand	advcl
18	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 stop	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 live	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 live	cc
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 live	nsubj
23	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stand	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 Antarctica	case
25	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 live	obl
26	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	23 live	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 scientists	punct
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 scientists	advmod
29	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rotting	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 staff	cc
31	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 staff	compound
32	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 scientists	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stand	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	Scott and Shackleton's huts			still; year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present	cold and dryness					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	rot	gerund	cold and dryness not said here	scientists and support staff				tree rules
4	live	present	no people		Antarctica		permanently property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in antarctica=Location

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:007-antarctica.lesson:17.

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): R5-strong ×3. 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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