--- title: Polar bears need the sea ice: they wait on it for seals to come up t… — The polar zone: polar bears · tree and pragmatics description: Polar bears need the sea ice: they wait on it for seals to come up to breathe, and as the climate warms the ice melts earlier and freezes later, so the bears must go longer without food. Who acts: Polar bears, seals, climate, ice. 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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 (Polar bears, seals, climate, ice), 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:2 # text = Polar bears need the sea ice: they wait on it for seals to come up to breathe, and as the climate warms the ice melts earlier and freezes later, so the bears must go longer without food. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl 24 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 28 earlier early ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 freezes freeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 38 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 39 without without ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Polar bears | the sea ice | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ice=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | present | seals *= seal* | | | bear | | for seals | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location | | 3 | **come up** | to-infinitive | seals *= seal* *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | seals *= seal* *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **warm** | present | the climate | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **melt** | present | the ice | | | | | early *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **freeze** | present | the ice *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **go** | must | the bears | | | | | without food; long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears.lesson:2`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The polar zone: polar bears, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/1/) - next →: [The polar zone: polar bears, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/)