Deserts, sentence 3
In Europa Universalis 5 the Sahara looks like an empty wall between North and West Africa.
Who acts: Sahara · What happens: look
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 (Sahara), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Europa | case |
| 2 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 looks | obl |
| 3 | Universalis | Universalis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Europa | flat |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Europa | flat |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sahara | det |
| 6 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 looks | nsubj |
| 7 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 10 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wall | amod |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looks | obl |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 North | case |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Africa | cc |
| 15 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 North | conj |
| 16 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 North | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the Sahara | like a empty wall between North and West and Africa; in Europa | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in europa=Theme |
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:3.
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. 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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