The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 5
Yet the Arctic was never empty: Inuit, Sámi, Nenets and other peoples have lived there for thousands of years.
Who acts: Arctic, Inuit · What happens: not be, live
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 (Arctic, Inuit), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 6 empty | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Arctic | det |
| 3 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 empty | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 empty | cop |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 empty | advmod |
| 6 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Inuit | punct |
| 8 | Inuit | Inuit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sámi | punct |
| 10 | Sámi | Sámi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Inuit | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nenets | punct |
| 12 | Nenets | Nenets | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 peoples | cc |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 peoples | amod |
| 15 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Nenets | conj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lived | aux |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 empty | parataxis |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lived | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 thousands | case |
| 20 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lived | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thousands | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Arctic | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present · perfect | Inuit and Sámi | there | for thousands of years | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×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.
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