Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts, sentence 14
A rain shadow is the dry side of a mountain range, where the wind arrives after dropping its rain.
Who acts: rain shadow, wind · What happens: be, arrive, drop, rain · To what, where: dry side, rain
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 (rain shadow, wind), 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 | 3 shadow | det |
| 2 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shadow | compound |
| 3 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 side | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 side | amod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 range | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 range | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 range | compound |
| 11 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arrives | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 arrives | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wind | det |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arrives | nsubj |
| 16 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 range | acl:relcl |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 dropping | mark |
| 18 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 arrives | advcl |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 rain | nmod:poss |
| 20 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dropping | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 side | 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 rain shadow | the dry side | of a mountain range | tree rules | |||
| 2 | arrive | present | the wind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drop | gerund | the wind not said here | wind's rain | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rain | wind | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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:14.
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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