--- title: An iceberg is a piece of ice that has broken off a glacier into the… — Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands · tree and pragmatics description: An iceberg is a piece of ice that has broken off a glacier into the sea, and most of it lies under the water. Who acts: iceberg, ice, most. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (iceberg, ice, most), 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:22 # text = An iceberg is a piece of ice that has broken off a glacier into the sea, and most of it lies under the water. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 iceberg iceberg NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 glacier glacier NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJS:_ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ _ 22 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 under under ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a iceberg | a piece | | | | of ice | tree rules | | 2 | **break off** | present · perfect | ice | a glacier | | | | into the sea *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent glacier=Patient into sea=Result | | 3 | **lie** | present | most of ice | | | the water | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location | 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:22`. **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/). - ← previous: [Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/21/) - next →: [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/)