--- title: The ice sheet covering Antarctica is on average about 2 km thick and… — The Arctic and Antarctica · tree and pragmatics description: The ice sheet covering Antarctica is on average about 2 km thick and holds roughly 70 percent of the world's fresh water. Who acts: ice sheet. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic and Antarctica» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The Arctic and Antarctica](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/) / 8 # The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 8 The ice sheet covering Antarctica is on average about 2 km thick and holds roughly 70 percent of the world's fresh water. **Who acts:** ice sheet · **What happens:** cover, be, hold · **To what, where:** Antarctica, average, 70 percent 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 (ice sheet), 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:8 # text = The ice sheet covering Antarctica is on average about 2 km thick and holds roughly 70 percent of the world's fresh water. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 covering cover VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 average average NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | gerund | the ice sheet *not said here* | | Antarctica | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme antarctica=Destination | | 2 | **is** | present | the ice sheet | | | average | | 2 km *obl:unmarked*; thick *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hold** | present | the ice sheet *not said here* | 70 percent of the world's fresh water | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent percent=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:8`. **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): 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/7/) - next →: [The Arctic and Antarctica, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/)