The penguin pool, sentence 7
Polar bears live only around the North Pole and penguins almost only 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: North Pole, wild
This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguin pool» 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 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 Pole | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pole | det |
| 7 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Pole | compound |
| 8 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 penguins | cc |
| 10 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Pole | conj |
| 11 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 half | advmod |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 half | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 half | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 half | det |
| 15 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 half | amod |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 Pole | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 half | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 meet | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 meet | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 meet | nsubj |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 meet | advmod |
| 24 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 wild | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wild | det |
| 27 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 meet | obl |
| 28 | . | . | 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 North Pole in the southern half of the world and penguins | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around pole=Location | ||||
| 2 | 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:099-the-penguin-pool.lesson:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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