Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, sentence 18
The Arctic is mostly an ocean covered with floating sea ice.
Who acts: Arctic · What happens: be, cover, float · To what, where: ocean
This is a sentence of the lesson «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» 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 (Arctic), 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 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 6 ocean | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ocean | det |
| 6 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ocean | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 ice | case |
| 9 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 ice | amod |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ice | compound |
| 11 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ocean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Arctic | a ocean | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cover | participle | a ocean not said here | with floating sea ice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:065-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands.lesson:18.
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): no change. 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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