--- title: Antarctica in the south is a continent of land under an ice sheet, w… — Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands · tree and pragmatics description: Antarctica in the south is a continent of land under an ice sheet, with no people living there for good; the Arctic in the north is mostly an ocean covered by floating sea ice, ringed by lands where people such as the Inuit live. Who acts: Antarctica, people, Arctic. A sentence of the lesson «Glacie --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, sentence 7 Antarctica in the south is a continent of land under an ice sheet, with no people living there for good; the Arctic in the north is mostly an ocean covered by floating sea ice, ringed by lands where people such as the Inuit live. **Who acts:** Antarctica, people, Arctic · **What happens:** be, live, cover, float, ring · **To what, where:** continent, ice sheet, ocean 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 (Antarctica, people, 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:7 # text = Antarctica in the south is a continent of land under an ice sheet, with no people living there for good; the Arctic in the north is mostly an ocean covered by floating sea ice, ringed by lands where people such as the Inuit live. # 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 ×3 1 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 under under ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 18 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Arctic Arctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 32 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 35 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:agent _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 ringed ring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:agent _ _ 41 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 47 advmod _ _ 42 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 43 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 42 advmod _ _ 44 as as ADP IN _ 43 fixed _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 Inuit Inuit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 47 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | Antarctica in the south | a continent | | a ice sheet with no people | | of land | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | gerund | no people *not said here* | | | there | | for good | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | the Arctic in the north | a ocean | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **cover** | participle | | a ocean *not said here* | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **ring** | participle | the Arctic in the north *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **live** | present | people the Inuit | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:7`. **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 ×3. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/6/) - next →: [Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/)