Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts, sentence 13
The Atacama Desert in Chile, beside the Pacific Ocean, is one of the driest places on Earth.
Who acts: Atacama Desert · What happens: be · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» 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 (Atacama Desert), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Desert | det |
| 2 | Atacama | Atacama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Desert | compound |
| 3 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 one | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Chile | case |
| 5 | Chile | Chile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Desert | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ocean | punct |
| 7 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 10 Ocean | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ocean | det |
| 9 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ocean | compound |
| 10 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Desert | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Desert | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 places | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 places | det |
| 16 | driest | dry | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 places | amod |
| 17 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Earth | case |
| 19 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 places | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | 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 | the Atacama Desert in Chile beside the Pacific Ocean | one | of the driest places on Earth | 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:050-why-the-earth-is-so.lesson:13.
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): R8-pos-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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