--- title: The Arctic Ocean lies around the North Pole under a lid of floating… — The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-ye… · tree and pragmatics description: The Arctic Ocean lies around the North Pole under a lid of floating sea ice that grows in winter and shrinks in summer, and the animals there live on, under and around that lid. Who acts: Arctic Ocean, floating sea ice, animals. 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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 (Arctic Ocean, floating sea ice, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.lesson:0 # text = The Arctic Ocean lies around the North Pole under a lid of floating sea ice that grows in winter and shrinks in summer, and the animals there live on, under and around that lid. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Arctic Arctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 around around ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 under under ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 29 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 under under ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 around around ADP IN _ 32 conj _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | the Arctic Ocean | | | the North Pole | | under a lid of floating sea ice | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around pole=Location | | 2 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present | floating sea ice | | | | winter | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **shrink** | present | floating sea ice *not said here* | | | | summer | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **live** | present | the animals | | | that lid | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lid=Location | 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:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.lesson:0`. **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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