--- title: Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, driest and highest continent: i… — The Arctic and Antarctica · tree and pragmatics description: Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, driest and highest continent: its ice is on average about 2 km thick, and if it all melted the seas would rise by about 58 metres. Who acts: Antarctica, ice, seas. 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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 (Antarctica, ice, seas), 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:2 # text = Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, driest and highest continent: its ice is on average about 2 km thick, and if it all melted the seas would rise by about 58 metres. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 4 coldest cold ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 windiest windy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 driest dry ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 conj _ _ 11 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 20 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 all all ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 melted melt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 about about ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 58 58 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Antarctica | the coldest windiest driest continent | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | continent's ice | | | | | 2 km *obl*; average *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **melt** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | ice | | | | | all *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **rise** | would | the seas | | | | | by 58 metres | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by metre=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:geography:015-the-arctic-and-antarctica.lesson:2`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [The Arctic and Antarctica, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/1/) - next →: [The Arctic and Antarctica, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/)