--- title: Glaciers form where more snow falls than melts, year after year. — Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands · tree and pragmatics description: Glaciers form where more snow falls than melts, year after year. Who acts: Glaciers, more snow. A sentence of the lesson «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/11/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/) / 11 # Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, sentence 11 Glaciers form where more snow falls than melts, year after year. **Who acts:** Glaciers, more snow · **What happens:** form, fall, melt This is a sentence of the lesson «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» of the world 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 (Glaciers, more snow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:065-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands.lesson:11 # text = Glaciers form where more snow falls than melts, year after year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 065-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands.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 Glaciers glacier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 form form VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 6 advmod _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 7 than than ADP IN _ 8 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 8 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **form** | present | Glaciers | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | present | more snow | | | | year | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **melt** | present | more snow *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:world:065-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands.lesson:11`. **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: [Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/10/) - next →: [Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/)