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title: Today two great ice sheets cover Greenland and Antarctica and hold a… — Glaciers and ice ages · tree and pragmatics
description: Today two great ice sheets cover Greenland and Antarctica and hold about 99% of the world's glacier ice. Who acts: two great ice sheets. A sentence of the lesson «Glaciers and ice ages» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 9

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Today two great ice sheets cover Greenland and Antarctica and hold about 99% of the world's glacier ice.

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**Who acts:** two great ice sheets · **What happens:** cover, hold · **To what, where:** Greenland

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Glaciers and ice ages» 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 (two great ice sheets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:054-glaciers-and-ice-ages.lesson:9
# text = Today two great ice sheets cover Greenland and Antarctica and hold about 99% of the world's glacier ice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 054-glaciers-and-ice-ages.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	99	99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	glacier	glacier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present | two great ice sheets |  | Greenland and Antarctica |  | today |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme greenland=Destination |
| 2 | **hold** | present | two great ice sheets *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Theme |

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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:054-glaciers-and-ice-ages.lesson:9`.

**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): 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/).

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