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title: Near the poles the year has strange days: north of the Arctic Circle… — The Arctic and Antarctica · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the poles the year has strange days: north of the Arctic Circle the summer Sun can shine all night, and in winter it may not rise at all for days. Who acts: year, summer Sun, Sun. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic and Antarctica» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 6

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Near the poles the year has strange days: north of the Arctic Circle the summer Sun can shine all night, and in winter it may not rise at all for days.

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**Who acts:** year, summer Sun, Sun · **What happens:** have, shine, not rise · **To what, where:** Arctic Circle, poles, all

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic and Antarctica» of the geography 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 (year, summer Sun, Sun), 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:6
# text = Near the poles the year has strange days: north of the Arctic Circle the summer Sun can shine all night, and in winter it may not rise at all for days.
# 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
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	north	north	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	_	14	compound	_	_
14	Circle	Circle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
16	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the year | the Arctic Circle |  | the poles | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=Patient |
| 2 | **shine** | can | the summer Sun | the Arctic Circle *not said here* |  |  | night |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent circle=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **rise** | may | Sun |  |  | all | day; winter |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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. **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/).

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