Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 12
Many of the world's biggest hot deserts, such as the Sahara, the Arabian and the Australian deserts, lie at about 20 to 30 degrees north or south of the equator.
Who acts: Many · What happens: lie · To what, where: 20 30 degrees
This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate zones and why they are where they are» 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 (Many), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lie | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 deserts | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deserts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 world | case |
| 6 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 deserts | amod |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deserts | amod |
| 8 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Many | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sahara | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 Sahara | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sahara | det |
| 13 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 deserts | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Arabian | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Arabian | det |
| 16 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Sahara | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 deserts | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 deserts | det |
| 19 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deserts | amod |
| 20 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 deserts | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 deserts | punct |
| 22 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 degrees | case |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 20 | advmod |
| 25 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 degrees | nummod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 30 | case |
| 27 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 degrees | nummod |
| 28 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lie | obl |
| 29 | north | north | ADV | _ | 22 lie | advmod |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 south | cc |
| 31 | south | south | ADV | _ | 29 north | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 equator | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 equator | det |
| 34 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 north | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Many of the world's biggest hot deserts such the Sahara and the Australian deserts | 20 30 degrees | north property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at degree=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:021-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:12.
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, 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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