Continents and oceans, sentence 12
Antarctica lies around the South Pole, is covered by thick ice and has no towns where people live all year.
Who acts: Antarctica, thick ice, people · What happens: lie, cover, have, live · To what, where: South Pole, towns
This is a sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» of the world 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, thick ice, people), 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 | 2 lies | nsubj |
| 2 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 Pole | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Pole | det |
| 5 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pole | compound |
| 6 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 covered | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 covered | aux:pass |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lies | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 ice | case |
| 11 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ice | amod |
| 12 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covered | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 has | cc |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lies | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 towns | det |
| 16 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 has | obj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 live | advmod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 live | nsubj |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 towns | acl:relcl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 year | det |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 live | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lies | 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 | lie | present | Antarctica | the South Pole | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around pole=Location | ||||
| 2 | cover | present · passive | thick ice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | present | Antarctica not said here | no towns | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live | present | people | year | 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:world:042-continents-and-oceans.lesson:12.
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, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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