The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 8
The ice sheet covering Antarctica is on average about 2 km thick and holds roughly 70 percent of the world's fresh water.
Who acts: ice sheet · What happens: cover, be, hold · To what, where: Antarctica, average, 70 percent
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 (ice sheet), 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 | 3 sheet | det |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sheet | compound |
| 3 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thick | nsubj |
| 4 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sheet | acl |
| 5 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 covering | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thick | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 average | case |
| 8 | average | average | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thick | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 2 | advmod |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 km | nummod |
| 11 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thick | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 holds | cc |
| 14 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thick | conj |
| 15 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 16 70 | advmod |
| 16 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 percent | nummod |
| 17 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holds | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 water | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 world | case |
| 22 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 water | amod |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 percent | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | gerund | the ice sheet not said here | Antarctica | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme antarctica=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the ice sheet | average | 2 km obl:unmarked; thick property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hold | present | the ice sheet not said here | 70 percent of the world's fresh water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent percent=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:8.
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): 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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