Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth, sentence 3
Christmas cards love polar bears and penguins playing together, but they never meet: polar bears live in the Arctic in the north, penguins almost only in the south, and the warm tropical oceans lie between them.
Who acts: Christmas cards, polar bears, penguins, warm tropical oceans · What happens: love, play, not meet, live, lie · To what, where: polar bears, Arctic
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 (Christmas cards, polar bears, penguins, warm tropical oceans), 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 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cards | compound |
| 2 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 love | nsubj |
| 3 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bears | amod |
| 5 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 love | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 penguins | cc |
| 7 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bears | conj |
| 8 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 bears | acl |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 playing | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 meet | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 meet | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 meet | advmod |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 love | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 live | punct |
| 16 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bears | amod |
| 17 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 live | nsubj |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 love | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Arctic | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Arctic | det |
| 21 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 live | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 north | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 north | det |
| 24 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 live | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 penguins | punct |
| 26 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 love | obl |
| 27 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 28 only | advmod |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 south | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 south | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 south | det |
| 31 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 penguins | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 lie | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 lie | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 oceans | det |
| 35 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 oceans | amod |
| 36 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 oceans | amod |
| 37 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 lie | nsubj |
| 38 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 love | parataxis |
| 39 | between | between | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 lie | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | Christmas cards | polar bears and penguins | penguins obl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | play | gerund | polar bears and penguins not said here | together property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not meet | present | penguins = penguin | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live | present | polar bears | the Arctic | in the north | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location | |||
| 5 | lie | present | the warm tropical oceans | between penguins = penguin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=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:3.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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