Deserts, sentence 5

Think of a beach in July: the sand burns your feet even when the air feels fine, because the ground soaks up sunlight and gets much hotter than the air above it.

Who acts: you, sand, air, ground · What happens: think, burn, feel, soak up, get · To what, where: feet, sunlight

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 (you, sand, air, ground), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 beach	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 beach	det
4	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 July	case
6	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 beach	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 burns	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sand	det
9	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burns	nsubj
10	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	parataxis
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 burns	obj
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 when	advmod
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 feels	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feels	nsubj
17	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 burns	advcl
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feels	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 soaks	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 soaks	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 soaks	nsubj
23	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 burns	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 soaks	compound:prt
25	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 soaks	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gets	cc
27	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 soaks	conj
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 hotter	advmod
29	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 gets	xcomp
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 air	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hotter	obl
33	above	above	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 air	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here		of a beach in July	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burn	present	the sand	your feet		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
3	feel	present	the air		fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	soak up	present	the ground	sunlight		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source
5	get	present	the ground not said here		hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:5.

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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