Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 20
The savanna is a hot grassland with scattered trees, as in much of Africa.
Who acts: savanna · What happens: be, scatter · To what, where: hot grassland
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 (savanna), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 savanna | det |
| 2 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grassland | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grassland | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 grassland | det |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grassland | amod |
| 6 | grassland | grassland | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 8 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 trees | amod |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grassland | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 much | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 much | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 much | case |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grassland | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Africa | case |
| 15 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 much | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grassland | 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 | the savanna | a hot grassland | with scattered trees; as much of Africa | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scatter | participle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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:20.
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): 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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