--- title: When ice on land melts, the sea rises; when floating sea ice melts,… — Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands · tree and pragmatics description: When ice on land melts, the sea rises; when floating sea ice melts, the sea hardly changes, just as melting ice cubes do not make a full glass overflow. Who acts: ice, sea, floating sea ice, melting ice cubes. 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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 (ice, sea, floating sea ice, melting ice cubes), 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:9 # text = When ice on land melts, the sea rises; when floating sea ice melts, the sea hardly changes, just as melting ice cubes do not make a full glass overflow. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 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 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 mark _ _ 12 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 13 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound 14 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 24 melting melt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 25 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 cubes cube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 27 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 overflow overflow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **melt** | present | ice on land | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **rise** | present | the sea | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **melt** | present | floating sea ice | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **change** | present | the sea | | | | | hardly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **melt** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | melting ice cubes | a full glass overflow | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset overflow=Product | 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. 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