Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 19
Grasslands get too little rain for forests but more than deserts.
Who acts: Grasslands · What happens: get · To what, where: little rain
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 (Grasslands), 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 | Grasslands | grassland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 little | advmod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rain | amod |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 forests | case |
| 7 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rain | nmod |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 more | cc |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 forests | conj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 deserts | case |
| 11 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 more | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Grasslands | little rain | for forests | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rain=Theme for forest=Source |
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:19.
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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