Deserts, sentence 16

Australia is the driest inhabited continent, and about 70 percent of it is arid or semi-arid land, so most Australians live near the coast.

Who acts: Australia, 70 percent, most Australians · What happens: inhabit, be, live · To what, where: driest inhabited continent, coast

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 (Australia, 70 percent, most Australians), 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	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 continent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 continent	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 continent	det
4	driest	dry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 continent	amod
5	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 continent	amod
6	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 percent	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 percent	cc
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 70	advmod
10	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 percent	nummod
11	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 continent	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 arid	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 percent	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 arid	cop
15	arid	arid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 percent	acl:relcl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 land	cc
17	semi-arid	semi-arid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 arid	conj
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arid	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 live	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 live	advmod
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 Australians	amod
22	Australians	australian	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 live	nsubj
23	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 continent	parataxis
24	near	near	ADP	_	26 coast	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 coast	det
26	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 live	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 continent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	inhabit	participle					tree rules
2	is a	present	Australia	the driest inhabited continent			tree rules
3	is	present	70 percent percent not said here			arid property	tree rules
4	be		70 percent percent not said here				tree rules
5	live	present	most Australians		the coast		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near coast=Location

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:16.

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, 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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