Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 0

A desert is a place where very little rain falls, so the hardest problem for every living thing there is water, and in hot deserts the second problem is heat.

Who acts: desert, little rain, second problem · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: place, water, heat, hot deserts

This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» of the biology 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 (desert, little rain, second problem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 desert	det
2	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 falls	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rain	amod
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 falls	nsubj
10	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 water	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	22 water	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 problem	det
14	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 problem	amod
15	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 is	nsubj
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 thing	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 thing	det
18	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thing	compound
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 problem	nmod
20	there	there	PRON	_	22 water	expl
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 water	cop
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 heat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 heat	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 deserts	case
26	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 deserts	amod
27	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 heat	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 problem	det
29	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 problem	amod
30	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heat	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 heat	cop
32	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	a desert	a place and heat		tree rules
2	fall	present	little rain			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present		water	there	tree rules
4	is a	present	the second problem	heat	hot deserts	tree rules

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, 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:biology:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

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