Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 4
A tropical rainforest lies near the equator, is hot all year and gets heavy rain almost every day.
Who acts: tropical rainforest · What happens: lie, be, get · To what, where: equator, heavy 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 (tropical rainforest), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rainforest | det |
| 2 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rainforest | amod |
| 3 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 equator | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 equator | det |
| 7 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hot | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hot | cop |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lies | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hot | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gets | cc |
| 14 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lies | conj |
| 15 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rain | amod |
| 16 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gets | obj |
| 17 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 day | advmod |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a tropical rainforest | the equator | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near equator=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a tropical rainforest not said here | year | hot property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get | present | a tropical rainforest not said here | heavy rain | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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