--- title: The Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, while Antarctica is… — The Arctic and Antarctica · tree and pragmatics description: The Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, while Antarctica is a continent of land covered by ice and surrounded by ocean. Who acts: Arctic, Antarctica. 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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 (Arctic, Antarctica), 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:7 # text = The Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, while Antarctica is a continent of land covered by ice and surrounded by ocean. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Arctic Arctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 frozen frozen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:agent _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:agent _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:agent _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Arctic | a frozen ocean | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **surround** | participle | | a frozen ocean *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | Antarctica | a continent | | | | of land | tree rules | | 4 | **cover** | participle | | land *not said here* | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **surround** | participle | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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:7`. **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: [The Arctic and Antarctica, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/6/) - next →: [The Arctic and Antarctica, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/)