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title: Melting ice on land raises the sea level; melting floating sea ice h… — Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands · tree and pragmatics
description: Melting ice on land raises the sea level; melting floating sea ice hardly changes it. Who acts: ice, floating sea ice. 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 21

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Melting ice on land raises the sea level; melting floating sea ice hardly changes it.

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**Who acts:** ice, floating sea ice · **What happens:** melt, raise, float, change · **To what, where:** sea level, level

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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 (ice, floating sea ice), 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:21
# text = Melting ice on land raises the sea level; melting floating sea ice hardly changes it.
# 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
1	Melting	melt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	melting	melt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
11	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **melt** | gerund | ice on land *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **raise** | present | ice on land | the sea level |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=Theme |
| 3 | **melt** | gerund | floating sea ice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **change** | present | floating sea ice | level |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:21`.

**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. **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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