Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 12
Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth; the Sahara is the largest hot desert.
Who acts: Antarctica, Sahara · What happens: be · To what, where: largest desert, Earth, largest hot desert
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 (Antarctica, Sahara), 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 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 desert | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 desert | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 desert | det |
| 4 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 desert | amod |
| 5 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Earth | case |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 desert | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 desert | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sahara | det |
| 10 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 desert | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 desert | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 desert | det |
| 13 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 desert | amod |
| 14 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 desert | amod |
| 15 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 desert | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 desert | 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 | Antarctica | the largest desert | Earth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the Sahara | the largest hot 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:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.lesson:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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