Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 0
A biome is a large region of the Earth with its own climate and its own kinds of plants and animals; which biome a place has depends mostly on how warm it is and how much rain falls there.
Who acts: biome, place, much rain · What happens: be, have, depend, fall, acclimate · To what, where: large region, biome
This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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 (biome, place, much rain), 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 biome | det |
| 2 | biome | biome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 region | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 region | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 region | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 region | amod |
| 6 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Earth | det |
| 9 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 region | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 climate | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 climate | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 climate | amod |
| 13 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 region | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kinds | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 kinds | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kinds | amod |
| 17 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 climate | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 plants | case |
| 19 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kinds | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 animals | cc |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 plants | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 biome | punct |
| 23 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 24 biome | det |
| 24 | biome | biome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 depends | nsubj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 biome | acl:relcl |
| 28 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 region | parataxis |
| 29 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 32 warm | advmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 warm | case |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 warm | advmod |
| 32 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 depends | obj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 warm | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 warm | cop |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 rain | cc |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 much | advmod |
| 37 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 rain | amod |
| 38 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 warm | conj |
| 39 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 rain | acl:relcl |
| 40 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 falls | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 region | 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 biome | a large region | of the Earth; with biome's own climate and biome's own kinds of plants and animals | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | a place | which biome not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biome=Patient | ||||
| 3 | depend | present | which biome | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | place | mostly, warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fall | present | much rain not said here | there | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | acclimate | biome | nom climate «state intransitive»: 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:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×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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