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title: Antarctica is a frozen continent around the South Pole, colder and w… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics
description: Antarctica is a frozen continent around the South Pole, colder and windier than anywhere else on Earth, with almost no land animals, while the sea around it is crowded with life. Who acts: Antarctica, sea. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-ste
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# Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 0

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Antarctica is a frozen continent around the South Pole, colder and windier than anywhere else on Earth, with almost no land animals, while the sea around it is crowded with life.

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**Who acts:** Antarctica, sea · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** frozen continent, South Pole

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» of the biology 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, sea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:0
# text = Antarctica is a frozen continent around the South Pole, colder and windier than anywhere else on Earth, with almost no land animals, while the sea around it is crowded with life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	windier	windy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
16	else	else	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	around	around	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Antarctica | a frozen continent |  | the South Pole |  | with no land animals | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the sea around Pole |  |  |  |  | with life; crowded *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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