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title: Cartoons and adverts often show polar bears chasing penguins, but th… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cartoons and adverts often show polar bears chasing penguins, but that can never happen in the wild: polar bears live in the Arctic in the far north, and penguins live in the south, on opposite ends of the planet. Who acts: Cartoons, polar bears, that, penguins. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica:
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# Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 3

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Cartoons and adverts often show polar bears chasing penguins, but that can never happen in the wild: polar bears live in the Arctic in the far north, and penguins live in the south, on opposite ends of the planet.

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**Who acts:** Cartoons, polar bears, that, penguins · **What happens:** show, chase, not happen, live · **To what, where:** polar bears, penguins, wild, Arctic, south

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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 (Cartoons, polar bears, that, penguins), 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:3
# text = Cartoons and adverts often show polar bears chasing penguins, but that can never happen in the wild: polar bears live in the Arctic in the far north, and penguins live in the south, on opposite ends of the planet.
# 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
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
29	north	north	NOUN	NN	_	22	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	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 | **show** | present | Cartoons and adverts | polar bears |  |  |  | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient |
| 2 | **chase** | gerund | polar bears *not said here* | penguins |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **happen** | can | that |  |  | the wild |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wild=Location |
| 4 | **live** | present | polar bears |  |  | the Arctic |  | in the far north | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location |
| 5 | **live** | present | penguins |  |  | the south | on opposite ends of the planet |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location |

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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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**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. **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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