Deserts, sentence 13
Many great deserts lie near 30 degrees north or south of the equator, where dry air sinks after losing its rain over the tropics.
Who acts: Many great deserts, dry air, air · What happens: lie, sink, lose, rain · To what, where: 30 degrees, rain, tropics
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 (Many great deserts, dry air, air), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 deserts | amod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 deserts | amod |
| 3 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 30 | advmod |
| 6 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 degrees | nummod |
| 7 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lie | obl |
| 8 | north | north | ADV | _ | 4 lie | advmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 south | cc |
| 10 | south | south | ADV | _ | 8 north | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 equator | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 equator | det |
| 13 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 north | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sinks | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 sinks | advmod |
| 16 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 air | amod |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sinks | nsubj |
| 18 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 equator | acl:relcl |
| 19 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 losing | mark |
| 20 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 sinks | advcl |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 rain | nmod:poss |
| 22 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 losing | obj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 tropics | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tropics | det |
| 25 | tropics | tropic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 losing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Many great deserts | 30 degrees | north property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sink | present | dry air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | dry air not said here | air's rain | the tropics | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | rain | air | nom rain «phenomenon 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: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): R7-rel-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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