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title: The coldest temperature ever measured at a weather station was about… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest plac… · tree and pragmatics
description: The coldest temperature ever measured at a weather station was about minus 89 degrees Celsius, at Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983. Who acts: coldest temperature. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school 
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# Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth, sentence 12

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The coldest temperature ever measured at a weather station was about minus 89 degrees Celsius, at Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983.

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**Who acts:** coldest temperature · **What happens:** measure, be · **To what, where:** coldest temperature, weather station, Vostok Station

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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 (coldest temperature), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:007-antarctica.lesson:12
# text = The coldest temperature ever measured at a weather station was about minus 89 degrees Celsius, at Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 007-antarctica.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	coldest	cold	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	minus	minus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	89	89	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Vostok	Vostok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1983	1983	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **measure** | participle |  | the coldest temperature *not said here* |  | a weather station | ever |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at station=Value |
| 2 | **is** | past | the coldest temperature |  |  | Vostok Station in Antarctica |  | in 1983; 89 degrees *obl:unmarked*; about, minus *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:007-antarctica.lesson:12`.

**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.

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

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