Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 12
Most of the world's deserts are rock, gravel, mountains or ice; only about a fifth to a quarter of the Sahara is sand dunes.
Who acts: Most, fifth · What happens: be · To what, where: sand dunes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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, fifth), 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 | 8 rock | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deserts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 world | case |
| 6 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Most | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rock | cop |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gravel | punct |
| 10 | gravel | gravel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rock | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mountains | punct |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rock | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 ice | cc |
| 14 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rock | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 dunes | punct |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 fifth | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 fifth | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fifth | det |
| 19 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dunes | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 quarter | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 quarter | det |
| 22 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fifth | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Sahara | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sahara | det |
| 25 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 quarter | nmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 dunes | cop |
| 27 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dunes | compound |
| 28 | dunes | dune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rock | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rock | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most the world's deserts | of rock and gravel and mountains or ice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a fifth to a quarter of the Sahara | sand dunes | 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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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