Climate zones, sentence 9
A desert is a place that gets very little rain or snow; it can be hot like the Sahara or cold like Antarctica.
Who acts: desert, place · What happens: be, get · To what, where: place, little rain
This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate zones» of the world 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 (desert, place), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 desert | det |
| 2 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rain | amod |
| 10 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 snow | cc |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rain | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 hot | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hot | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hot | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hot | cop |
| 17 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 place | parataxis |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 Sahara | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sahara | det |
| 20 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hot | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 cold | cc |
| 22 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hot | conj |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 Antarctica | case |
| 24 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 cold | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a desert | a place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | a place | little rain or snow | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | can | desert | like the Sahara; hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | desert not said here | like Antarctica | 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:world:016-climate-zones.lesson:9.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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