--- title: Antarctic icefish are the only animals with backbones that have no r… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest plac… · tree and pragmatics description: Antarctic icefish are the only animals with backbones that have no red blood cells, so their blood is almost clear; very cold water holds plenty of oxygen, and many Antarctic fish have antifreeze in their blood. Who acts: Antarctic icefish, backbones, blood, cold water. A sentence of the lesson «Ant --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/) / 15 # Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth, sentence 15 Antarctic icefish are the only animals with backbones that have no red blood cells, so their blood is almost clear; very cold water holds plenty of oxygen, and many Antarctic fish have antifreeze in their blood. **Who acts:** Antarctic icefish, backbones, blood, cold water, many Antarctic fish · **What happens:** be, have, hold · **To what, where:** only animals, red blood cells, plenty, antifreeze, blood 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 icefish, backbones, blood, cold water), 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:15 # text = Antarctic icefish are the only animals with backbones that have no red blood cells, so their blood is almost clear; very cold water holds plenty of oxygen, and many Antarctic fish have antifreeze in their blood. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Antarctic antarctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 icefish icefish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 backbones backbone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 12 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 almost almost ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 Antarctic Antarctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 34 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 antifreeze antifreeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Antarctic icefish | the only animals | | | | with backbones | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | backbones | no red blood cells | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | icefish's blood | | | | | almost, clear *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **hold** | present | cold water | plenty of oxygen | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | many Antarctic fish | antifreeze | | icefish's blood | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antifreeze=Patient | 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:007-antarctica.lesson:15`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/14/) - next →: [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/)