Deserts, sentence 7
Antarctica is the largest desert in the world, and the Sahara, at about 9 million square kilometres, is the largest hot desert, about as large as China.
Who acts: Antarctica, Sahara · What happens: be · To what, where: largest desert, world, largest hot desert
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 (Antarctica, 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 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 desert | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 desert | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 desert | det |
| 4 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 desert | amod |
| 5 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 desert | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sahara | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Sahara | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sahara | det |
| 12 | Sahara | sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 desert | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kilometres | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 kilometres | case |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 million | advmod |
| 16 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 million | compound |
| 17 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 kilometres | nummod |
| 18 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kilometres | amod |
| 19 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Sahara | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 desert | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 desert | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 desert | det |
| 23 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 desert | amod |
| 24 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 desert | amod |
| 25 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 desert | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 large | punct |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 large | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 large | advmod |
| 29 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 desert | amod |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 China | case |
| 31 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 large | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 desert | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Antarctica | the largest desert and the largest hot desert | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the Sahara at million square kilometres | the largest hot desert | tree rules |
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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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