Deserts, sentence 10
The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest non-polar desert, and some of its weather stations have never recorded measurable rain; its soil is so dry and lifeless, much like Mars, that scientists test Mars rovers there.
Who acts: Atacama Desert, some, soil, scientists, desert · What happens: be, not record, test, soil · To what, where: driest non-polar desert, measurable rain, Mars rovers
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 (Atacama Desert, some, soil, scientists), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Desert | det |
| 2 | Atacama | Atacama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Desert | compound |
| 3 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 desert | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Chile | case |
| 5 | Chile | Chile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Desert | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 desert | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 desert | det |
| 8 | driest | dry | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 desert | amod |
| 9 | non-polar | non-polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 desert | amod |
| 10 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recorded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 recorded | cc |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 recorded | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 stations | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 stations | nmod:poss |
| 16 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stations | compound |
| 17 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 some | nmod |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 recorded | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 recorded | advmod |
| 20 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 desert | conj |
| 21 | measurable | measurable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rain | amod |
| 22 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recorded | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 dry | punct |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 soil | nmod:poss |
| 25 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dry | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 dry | cop |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 dry | advmod |
| 28 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 desert | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lifeless | cc |
| 30 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dry | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Mars | punct |
| 32 | much | much | ADV | _ | 34 Mars | advmod |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 Mars | case |
| 34 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 dry | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 test | punct |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 test | mark |
| 37 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 test | nsubj |
| 38 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 Mars | acl:relcl |
| 39 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 rovers | compound |
| 40 | rovers | rover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 test | obj |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 test | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 desert | punct |
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 | the Atacama Desert in Chile | the driest non-polar desert | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not record | present · perfect | some | measurable rain | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | desert's soil | like Mars; dry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | desert's soil not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | test | present | scientists | Mars rovers | there | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rover=Theme | |||
| 6 | soil | desert | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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:10.
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 ×2. 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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