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title: Christmas cards get the map wrong: polar bears live in the far north… — Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrot… · tree and pragmatics
description: Christmas cards get the map wrong: polar bears live in the far north and penguins in the south, so in the wild they never meet. Who acts: Christmas cards, polar bears, bears. A sentence of the lesson «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» of the biology c
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# Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows, sentence 4

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Christmas cards get the map wrong: polar bears live in the far north and penguins in the south, so in the wild they never meet.

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**Who acts:** Christmas cards, polar bears, bears · **What happens:** get, live, not meet · **To what, where:** map, far north, wild

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» 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 (Christmas cards, polar bears, bears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:4
# text = Christmas cards get the map wrong: polar bears live in the far north and penguins in the south, so in the wild they never meet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 035-birds-of-every-kind.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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
13	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
14	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Christmas cards | the map |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer map=Stimulus |
| 2 | **live** | present | polar bears | the far north |  |  |  | in penguins in the south | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in penguin=Location |
| 3 | **not** **meet** | present | bears *= bear* |  |  | the wild |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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.

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

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