--- title: Stand at the underwater window of the polar zone and a polar bear gl… — The polar zone: polar bears · tree and pragmatics description: Stand at the underwater window of the polar zone and a polar bear glides past, paddling with front paws as big as dinner plates and steering with its back legs, because in the wild it swims between pieces of sea ice to hunt seals. Who acts: you, polar bear, bear. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, polar bear, bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears.lesson:0 # text = Stand at the underwater window of the polar zone and a polar bear glides past, paddling with front paws as big as dinner plates and steering with its back legs, because in the wild it swims between pieces of sea ice to hunt seals. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3 1 Stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 underwater underwater NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 12 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod 13 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 glides glide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 15 past past ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 paddling paddle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 steering steer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 39 between between ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 46 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | the underwater window of the polar zone | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | | 2 | **glide** | present | a polar bear | | | | | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **paddle** | gerund | a polar bear *not said here* | | | | | with front paws | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **steer** | gerund | a polar bear *not said here* | | | | | with bear's back legs | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **swim** | present | bear | | | the wild | | between pieces of sea ice | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Trajectory | | 6 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | bear *not said here* | seals | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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