Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 6
"Biggest desert" depends on what a desert is (a place with very little rain or snow, so frozen Antarctica counts), and "tallest mountain" depends on whether you measure from the sea or from the mountain's own foot on the sea floor.
Who acts: Biggest desert, desert, frozen Antarctica, tallest mountain, you · What happens: depend, be, count, measure · To what, where: place, sea
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 (Biggest desert, desert, frozen Antarctica, tallest mountain), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 desert | punct |
| 2 | Biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 desert | amod |
| 3 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 desert | punct |
| 5 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 place | dep |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 desert | det |
| 9 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 place | cop |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 place | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 rain | case |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 little | advmod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rain | amod |
| 17 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 snow | cc |
| 19 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rain | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 counts | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 counts | advmod |
| 22 | frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Antarctica | amod |
| 23 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 counts | nsubj |
| 24 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 place | parataxis |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 place | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 depends | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 depends | cc |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 mountain | punct |
| 29 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 mountain | amod |
| 30 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 depends | nsubj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 mountain | punct |
| 32 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 depends | conj |
| 33 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 36 measure | mark |
| 34 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 36 measure | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 measure | nsubj |
| 36 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 depends | advcl |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 sea | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sea | det |
| 39 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 measure | obl |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 foot | cc |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 foot | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 mountain | det |
| 43 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 foot | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 mountain | case |
| 45 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 foot | amod |
| 46 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sea | conj |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 floor | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 floor | det |
| 49 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 floor | compound |
| 50 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 foot | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | Biggest desert | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a desert | a place | with little rain or snow | tree rules | |||
| 3 | count | present | frozen Antarctica | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | depend | present | tallest mountain | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | measure | present | you | the sea or the mountain's own foot on the sea floor | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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