Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 14
Hot deserts can be very cold at night because dry clear air lets heat escape.
Who acts: Hot deserts, dry clear air, heat · What happens: be, let, escape · To what, where: heat
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 (Hot deserts, dry clear air, heat), 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 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 deserts | amod |
| 2 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cold | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cold | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 cold | advmod |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cold | obl |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 lets | mark |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 air | amod |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 air | amod |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lets | nsubj |
| 13 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cold | advcl |
| 14 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lets | obj |
| 15 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lets | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cold | 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 | can | Hot deserts | night | cold property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | let | present | dry clear air | heat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | escape | infinitive | heat not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:14.
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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