Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 1
A desert gets less than about 250 millimetres of rain a year.
Who acts: desert · What happens: get · To what, where: 250 millimetres
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 desert | det |
| 2 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 250 | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 less | fixed |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 250 | advmod |
| 7 | 250 | 250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 millimetres | nummod |
| 8 | millimetres | millimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gets | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rain | case |
| 10 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 millimetres | nmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | 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 | get | present | a desert | 250 millimetres of rain | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer millimetre=Stimulus |
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:1.
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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