The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 12
Antarctica was first sighted in 1820, and Roald Amundsen's Norwegian team reached the South Pole first on 14 December 1911, about a month before Robert Scott's British team, who all died on the way back.
Who acts: Norwegian team, British team · What happens: sight, reach, die · To what, where: Antarctica, 1820, South Pole, 14, way
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 (Norwegian team, British team), 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 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sighted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sighted | aux:pass |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sighted | advmod |
| 4 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1820 | case |
| 6 | 1820 | 1820 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 sighted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 9 | Roald | Roald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 team | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Amundsen | Amundsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Roald | flat |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Roald | case |
| 12 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 team | amod |
| 13 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sighted | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Pole | det |
| 16 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Pole | compound |
| 17 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 reached | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 14 | case |
| 20 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 reached | obl |
| 21 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 14 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | 1911 | 1911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 14 | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 month | punct |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 month | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 month | det |
| 26 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obl |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 team | case |
| 28 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 team | nmod:poss |
| 29 | Scott | Scott | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Robert | flat |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Robert | case |
| 31 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 team | amod |
| 32 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 died | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 died | nsubj |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 died | advmod |
| 36 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 team | acl:relcl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 way | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 way | det |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 died | obl |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 way | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sight | past · passive | Antarctica | 1820 | first property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Roald's Norwegian team | the South Pole | 14 December | before Robert's British team; month | first property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pole=Theme | |
| 3 | die | past | Robert's British team | the way | all property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:12.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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