--- title: The Antarctic Circumpolar Current flows round Antarctica and is the… — The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid… · tree and pragmatics description: The Antarctic Circumpolar Current flows round Antarctica and is the strongest ocean current in the world, carrying many times more water than all the world's rivers together. Who acts: Antarctic Circumpolar Current. 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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 (Antarctic Circumpolar Current), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:9 # text = The Antarctic Circumpolar Current flows round Antarctica and is the strongest ocean current in the world, carrying many times more water than all the world's rivers together. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Antarctic Antarctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 Circumpolar Circumpolar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Current Current PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 round round ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod 12 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 26 det:predet _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 29 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flow** | present | the Antarctic Circumpolar Current | | | | | round Antarctica | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | the Antarctic Circumpolar Current *not said here* | the strongest ocean current | | the world | | | tree rules | | 3 | **carry** | gerund | | more water | | | | than all world's rivers; together *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. 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