The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 1

Polar bears live only in the Arctic and wild penguins only in the southern half of the world, so a cartoon of a polar bear chasing penguins could never happen in nature.

Who acts: Polar bears, polar bear, cartoon · What happens: live, chase, not happen, cartoon · To what, where: Arctic, penguins, nature, polar bear

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic and Antarctica» of the geography 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, polar bear, cartoon), 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	in	in	ADP	_	7 Arctic	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Arctic	det
7	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 half	cc
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 penguins	amod
10	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 half	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 half	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 half	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 half	det
14	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 half	amod
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 Arctic	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 half	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 happen	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	31 happen	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cartoon	det
22	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 happen	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 bear	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bear	det
25	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bear	amod
26	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cartoon	nmod
27	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 bear	acl
28	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 chasing	obj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 happen	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 happen	advmod
31	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 live	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 nature	case
33	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 happen	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	present	Polar bears		the Arctic and the southern half of the world	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location
2	chase	gerund	a polar bear not said here	penguins		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Theme
3	not happen	could	a cartoon of a polar bear		nature	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in nature=Location
4	cartoon			a polar bear		nom cartoon «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:geography:015-the-arctic-and-antarctica.lesson:1.

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. 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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