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title: The North Pole is in the middle of a frozen ocean, and the South Pol… — The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: The North Pole is in the middle of a frozen ocean, and the South Pole is on the icy land of Antarctica. Who acts: North Pole, South Pole. A sentence of the lesson «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator, sentence 13

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The North Pole is in the middle of a frozen ocean, and the South Pole is on the icy land of Antarctica.

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**Who acts:** North Pole, South Pole · **What happens:** be, freeze · **To what, where:** middle, icy land

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» 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 (North Pole, South Pole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.lesson:13
# text = The North Pole is in the middle of a frozen ocean, and the South Pole is on the icy land of Antarctica.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.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 ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present | the North Pole |  |  | the middle and the icy land |  | of a frozen ocean | tree rules |
| 2 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the South Pole |  |  | the icy land |  | of Antarctica | tree rules |

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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:007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.lesson:13`.

**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 ×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/).

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