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title: The Arctic is mostly an ocean covered with floating sea ice. — Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands · tree and pragmatics
description: The Arctic is mostly an ocean covered with floating sea ice. Who acts: Arctic. 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.
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# Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, sentence 18

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The Arctic is mostly an ocean covered with floating sea ice.

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**Who acts:** Arctic · **What happens:** be, cover, float · **To what, where:** ocean

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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 (Arctic), 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:18
# text = The Arctic is mostly an ocean covered with floating sea ice.
# 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): no change
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	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | the Arctic | a ocean |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | a ocean *not said here* |  |  |  | with floating sea ice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ice=Theme |
| 3 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: 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:world:065-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands.lesson:18`.

**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): no change. **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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