Food and farming around the world, sentence 17

On the steppe, dry grassland too dry for crops in many places, and in deserts many peoples lived as nomadic herders, moving with their animals to find fresh grass and water.

Who acts: many peoples · What happens: live, move, find · To what, where: deserts, fresh grass

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» 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 peoples), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 steppe	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 steppe	det
3	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grassland	punct
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grassland	amod
6	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 steppe	conj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 dry	advmod
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grassland	amod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 crops	case
10	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dry	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 places	case
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 places	amod
13	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 crops	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lived	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 deserts	case
17	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lived	obl
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 peoples	amod
19	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lived	nsubj
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 steppe	parataxis
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 herders	case
22	nomadic	nomadic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 herders	amod
23	herders	herder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lived	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 moving	punct
25	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 lived	advcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 animals	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 animals	nmod:poss
28	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 moving	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 find	mark
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 moving	advcl
31	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 grass	amod
32	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 find	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 water	cc
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grass	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 steppe	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	many peoples		deserts	as nomadic herders	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location
2	move	gerund	many peoples not said here			with people's animals	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	many peoples not said here	fresh grass and water			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Topic

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:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:17.

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): no change. 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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