Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 13
Most deserts are rocky or stony rather than covered in sand dunes.
Who acts: Most deserts · What happens: be, cover
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 (Most deserts), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 deserts | amod |
| 2 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rocky | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rocky | cop |
| 4 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 stony | cc |
| 6 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rocky | conj |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 9 covered | cc |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 rather | fixed |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rocky | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 dunes | case |
| 11 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dunes | compound |
| 12 | dunes | dune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 covered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rocky | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most deserts | rocky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Most deserts not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | cover | participle | Most deserts not said here | in sand dunes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dune=Theme |
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:13.
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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