Deserts, sentence 1
Films show the Sahara as endless golden dunes, but only about a quarter of it is sand; most of it is bare rock and gravel plains.
Who acts: Films, most · What happens: show, be · To what, where: Sahara, bare rock
This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts» of the geography 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 (Films, most), 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 | Films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sahara | det |
| 4 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 show | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 dunes | case |
| 6 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dunes | amod |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dunes | amod |
| 8 | dunes | dune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quarter | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 quarter | cc |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 quarter | advmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 quarter | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 quarter | det |
| 14 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 show | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sand | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 quarter | nmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sand | cop |
| 18 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quarter | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 rock | punct |
| 20 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 rock | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 most | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 rock | cop |
| 24 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rock | amod |
| 25 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quarter | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 plains | cc |
| 27 | gravel | gravel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 plains | compound |
| 28 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rock | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Films | the Sahara | as endless golden dunes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sahara=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | of sand | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | most of sand | bare rock and gravel plains | 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:geography:018-deserts.lesson:1.
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 ×2, 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.
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