--- title: Antarctica was first sighted in 1820, and Roald Amundsen's Norwegian… — The Arctic and Antarctica · tree and pragmatics description: Antarctica was first sighted in 1820, and Roald Amundsen's Norwegian team reached the South Pole first on 14 December 1911, about a month before Robert Scott's British team, who all died on the way back. Who acts: Norwegian team, British team. 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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 (Norwegian team, British team), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:015-the-arctic-and-antarctica.lesson:12 # text = Antarctica was first sighted in 1820, and Roald Amundsen's Norwegian team reached the South Pole first on 14 December 1911, about a month before Robert Scott's British team, who all died on the way back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 015-the-arctic-and-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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 4 sighted sight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1820 1820 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 Roald Roald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 10 Amundsen Amundsen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 12 Norwegian Norwegian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ _ 21 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 1911 1911 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 flat _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 27 before before ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 Robert Robert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 29 Scott Scott PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 31 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 all all ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 back back ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **sight** | past · passive | | Antarctica | | 1820 | | first *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **reach** | past | Roald's Norwegian team | the South Pole | | 14 December | before Robert's British team; month | first *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pole=Theme | | 3 | **die** | past | Robert's British team | | | the way | | all *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:geography:015-the-arctic-and-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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [The Arctic and Antarctica, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/11/) - next →: [The Arctic and Antarctica, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/)