--- title: Only two kinds of flowering plants grow in Antarctica, and its liche… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics description: Only two kinds of flowering plants grow in Antarctica, and its lichens and mosses grow so slowly that some patches are hundreds of years old. Who acts: two kinds, lichens, patches. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» of the bi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, cl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/) / 14 # Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 14 Only two kinds of flowering plants grow in Antarctica, and its lichens and mosses grow so slowly that some patches are hundreds of years old. **Who acts:** two kinds, lichens, patches · **What happens:** grow, be · **To what, where:** Antarctica 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 (two kinds, lichens, patches), 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:14 # text = Only two kinds of flowering plants grow in Antarctica, and its lichens and mosses grow so slowly that some patches are hundreds of years old. # 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): no change 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 flowering flowering ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 lichens lichen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 mosses moss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | two kinds of flowering plants | | | Antarctica | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in antarctica=Location | | 2 | **grow** | present | midge's lichens and mosses | | | | | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | some patches | | | | | hundreds of years *obl:unmarked*; old *property* | tree rules | 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:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:14`. **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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