Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts, sentence 16
A desert is a place where very little rain or snow falls, so Antarctica is also a desert.
Who acts: desert, little rain, Antarctica · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: place, desert
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 (desert, little rain, Antarctica), 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 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 falls | advmod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 little | advmod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rain | amod |
| 9 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 falls | nsubj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 snow | cc |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rain | conj |
| 12 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 desert | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 desert | advmod |
| 15 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 desert | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 desert | cop |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 desert | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 desert | det |
| 19 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a desert | a place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | little rain or snow | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Antarctica | a desert | 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:16.
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 ×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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