The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 13
North of the Arctic Circle the Sun stays up for at least one full day in summer and stays below the horizon for at least one full day in winter; at the North Pole itself there are about six months of daylight and six months of dark.
Who acts: North, six months · What happens: stay up, stay, be about · To what, where: horizon, North Pole
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 (North, six months), 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 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stays | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Circle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Circle | det |
| 4 | Arctic | Arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Circle | amod |
| 5 | Circle | Circle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 North | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stays | nsubj |
| 8 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 stays | compound:prt |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 least | case |
| 12 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 one | nmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | nummod |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stays | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 summer | case |
| 17 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stays | cc |
| 19 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stays | conj |
| 20 | below | below | ADP | _ | 22 horizon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horizon | det |
| 22 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stays | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 day | case |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 least | case |
| 25 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 one | nmod |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 day | nummod |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 day | amod |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stays | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 winter | case |
| 30 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 day | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 are | punct |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 Pole | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Pole | det |
| 34 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Pole | compound |
| 35 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 are | obl |
| 36 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 35 Pole | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 are | expl |
| 38 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stays | parataxis |
| 39 | about | about | ADV | _ | 40 six | advmod |
| 40 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 months | nummod |
| 41 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 are | nsubj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 daylight | case |
| 43 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 months | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 months | cc |
| 45 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 months | nummod |
| 46 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 months | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 dark | case |
| 48 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 months | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay up | present | North of the Arctic Circle | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | North of the Arctic Circle not said here | the horizon | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below horizon=Location | |||
| 3 | be about | present | six months of daylight and six months of dark | the North Pole Sun; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pole=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:geography:015-the-arctic-and-antarctica.lesson:13.
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 ×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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