The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 2

Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, driest and highest continent: its ice is on average about 2 km thick, and if it all melted the seas would rise by about 58 metres.

Who acts: Antarctica, ice, seas · What happens: be, melt, rise · To what, where: coldest windiest driest continent

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 (Antarctica, ice, seas), 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	11 continent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 continent	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 continent	det
4	coldest	cold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 continent	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 windiest	punct
6	windiest	windy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 continent	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 driest	punct
8	driest	dry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 continent	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 highest	cc
10	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 driest	conj
11	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 continent	punct
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ice	nmod:poss
14	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 average	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 average	cop
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 average	case
17	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 continent	parataxis
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 2	advmod
19	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 average	obl
20	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 2	nmod:unmarked
21	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 km	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rise	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 melted	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 melted	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 melted	nsubj
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 melted	advmod
27	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 rise	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 seas	det
29	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 rise	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 rise	aux
31	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 average	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 metres	case
33	about	about	ADV	_	34 58	advmod
34	58	58	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 metres	nummod
35	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 rise	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 continent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Antarctica	the coldest windiest driest continent		tree rules
2	is	present	continent's ice		2 km obl; average property	tree rules
3	melt a condition, not said to happen	past	ice		all property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	rise	would	the seas		by 58 metres	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by metre=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:2.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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