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title: The Antarctic ice sheet is over 4 km thick in places and holds about… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest plac… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Antarctic ice sheet is over 4 km thick in places and holds about 70 per cent of the world's fresh water. Who acts: Antarctic ice sheet. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth, sentence 13

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The Antarctic ice sheet is over 4 km thick in places and holds about 70 per cent of the world's fresh water.

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**Who acts:** Antarctic ice sheet · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** places, 70 per cent

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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 (Antarctic ice sheet), 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:13
# text = The Antarctic ice sheet is over 4 km thick in places and holds about 70 per cent of the world's fresh water.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Antarctic	Antarctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | the Antarctic ice sheet |  |  | places |  | 4 km *obl:unmarked*; thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present | the Antarctic ice sheet *not said here* | 70 per cent of the world's fresh water |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cent=Theme |

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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:13`.

**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): 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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