The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 7
The Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, while Antarctica is a continent of land covered by ice and surrounded by ocean.
Who acts: Arctic, Antarctica · What happens: be, surround, cover · To what, where: frozen ocean, continent, land
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, Antarctica), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Arctic | det |
| 2 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ocean | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ocean | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ocean | det |
| 5 | frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ocean | amod |
| 6 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ocean | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 continent | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 continent | mark |
| 12 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 continent | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 continent | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 continent | det |
| 15 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ocean | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 continent | nmod |
| 18 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 land | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 ice | case |
| 20 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 covered | obl:agent |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 surrounded | cc |
| 22 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 covered | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 ocean | case |
| 24 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ocean | 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 | is a | present | the Arctic | a frozen ocean | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | a frozen ocean not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Antarctica | a continent | of land | tree rules | |||
| 4 | cover | participle | land not said here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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:7.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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