--- title: Christmas cards love polar bears and penguins playing together, but… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest plac… · tree and pragmatics description: Christmas cards love polar bears and penguins playing together, but they never meet: polar bears live in the Arctic in the north, penguins almost only in the south, and the warm tropical oceans lie between them. Who acts: Christmas cards, polar bears, penguins, warm tropical oceans. 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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 (Christmas cards, polar bears, penguins, warm tropical oceans), 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:3 # text = Christmas cards love polar bears and penguins playing together, but they never meet: polar bears live in the Arctic in the north, penguins almost only in the south, and the warm tropical oceans lie between them. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 penguins penguin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Arctic Arctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 penguins penguin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 27 almost almost ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 oceans ocean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 39 between between ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | present | Christmas cards | polar bears and penguins | | | | penguins *obl* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus | | 2 | **play** | gerund | polar bears and penguins *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **meet** | present | penguins *= penguin* | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **live** | present | polar bears | | | the Arctic | | in the north | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location | | 5 | **lie** | present | the warm tropical oceans | | | | | between penguins *= penguin* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=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:3`. **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 ×1, 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/2/) - next →: [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/)