Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 3
Hot deserts are scorching by day but can be cold at night, because dry, clear air lets the heat escape into the sky.
Who acts: Hot deserts, dry clear air · What happens: scorch, be, let, escape · To what, where: sky
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), 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 | 4 scorching | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scorching | aux |
| 4 | scorching | scorch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scorching | obl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 cold | cc |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 cold | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cold | cop |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 scorching | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cold | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lets | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 lets | mark |
| 15 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 air | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dry | punct |
| 17 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 air | amod |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lets | nsubj |
| 19 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cold | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heat | det |
| 21 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 escape | compound |
| 22 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lets | xcomp |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 sky | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sky | det |
| 25 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 escape | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scorching | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scorch | present · progressive | Hot deserts | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | can | Hot deserts not said here | night | cold property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | let | present | dry clear air | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | escape | infinitive | dry clear air not said here | the sky | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sky=Initial_Location |
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:3.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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