Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 9
Today two great ice sheets cover Greenland and Antarctica and hold about 99% of the world's glacier ice.
Who acts: two great ice sheets · What happens: cover, hold · To what, where: Greenland
This is a sentence of the lesson «Glaciers and ice ages» 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 (two great ice sheets), 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 | Today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cover | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sheets | nummod |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sheets | amod |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sheets | compound |
| 5 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cover | nsubj |
| 6 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Greenland | Greenland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cover | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Antarctica | cc |
| 9 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Greenland | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hold | cc |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cover | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 99 | advmod |
| 13 | 99 | 99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 % | nummod |
| 14 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 11 hold | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ice | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 world | case |
| 19 | glacier | glacier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ice | compound |
| 20 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 % | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cover | 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 | cover | present | two great ice sheets | Greenland and Antarctica | today | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme greenland=Destination | |||
| 2 | hold | present | two great ice sheets not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:054-glaciers-and-ice-ages.lesson:9.
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): 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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