Deserts, sentence 9
Between about 11,000 and 5,000 years ago the Sahara was much wetter, with lakes, grasslands, hippos and crocodiles, and rock paintings there show swimmers and cattle.
Who acts: Sahara, rock paintings · What happens: be, show · To what, where: swimmers
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, rock paintings), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 3 11,000 | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 11,000 | advmod |
| 3 | 11,000 | 11,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 11,000 | cc |
| 5 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 11,000 | conj |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 wetter | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sahara | det |
| 9 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wetter | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wetter | cop |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 wetter | advmod |
| 12 | wetter | wet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 show | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 lakes | case |
| 15 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wetter | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grasslands | punct |
| 17 | grasslands | grassland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lakes | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hippos | punct |
| 19 | hippos | hippo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lakes | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crocodiles | cc |
| 21 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lakes | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 paintings | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 paintings | cc |
| 24 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 paintings | compound |
| 25 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 show | nsubj |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 paintings | advmod |
| 27 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wetter | advcl |
| 28 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 show | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cattle | cc |
| 30 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 swimmers | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wetter | 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 | past | the Sahara | with lakes and grasslands and hippos and crocodiles; ago, wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | present | rock paintings | swimmers and cattle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swimmer=Recipient |
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:9.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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