--- title: Scott's and Shackleton's huts still stand after over 100 years becau… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest plac… · tree and pragmatics description: Scott's and Shackleton's huts still stand after over 100 years because cold and dryness stop rotting, and no people live in Antarctica permanently, only scientists and support staff. Who acts: huts, cold, people. 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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 (huts, cold, people), 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:17 # text = Scott's and Shackleton's huts still stand after over 100 years because cold and dryness stop rotting, and no people live in Antarctica permanently, only scientists and support staff. # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 Scott Scott PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Shackleton Shackleton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 huts hut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 over over ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nsubj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 dryness dryness NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 18 rotting rot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 permanently permanently ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 support support NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **stand** | present | Scott and Shackleton's huts | | | | still; year | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stop** | present | cold and dryness | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **rot** | gerund | cold and dryness *not said here* | scientists and support staff | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | present | no people | | | Antarctica | | permanently *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in antarctica=Location | 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:17`. **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. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/16/) - next →: [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/)