Population and cities, sentence 12
Most people live in fairly small parts of the land: river valleys, coastal plains and fertile lowlands, while deserts, high mountains and polar lands are nearly empty.
Who acts: Most people · What happens: live, be · To what, where: small parts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» 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 (Most people), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 parts | case |
| 5 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 6 small | advmod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 parts | amod |
| 7 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parts | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 valleys | punct |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 valleys | compound |
| 13 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 parts | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plains | punct |
| 15 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 plains | amod |
| 16 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 valleys | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lowlands | cc |
| 18 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lowlands | amod |
| 19 | lowlands | lowland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 valleys | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 deserts | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 empty | mark |
| 22 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 valleys | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mountains | punct |
| 24 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mountains | amod |
| 25 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 deserts | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lands | cc |
| 27 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lands | amod |
| 28 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 valleys | conj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 empty | cop |
| 30 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 31 empty | advmod |
| 31 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 live | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Most people | small parts of the land | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Most people not said here | empty, nearly property | 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:024-population-and-cities.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 ×3, 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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