--- title: A desert is a place where very little rain falls, so the hardest pro… — Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking… · tree and pragmatics description: A desert is a place where very little rain falls, so the hardest problem for every living thing there is water, and in hot deserts the second problem is heat. Who acts: desert, little rain, second problem. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desert, little rain, second problem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:0 # text = A desert is a place where very little rain falls, so the hardest problem for every living thing there is water, and in hot deserts the second problem is heat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 18 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 there there PRON EX _ 22 expl _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 amod _ _ 30 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | a desert | a place and heat | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | present | little rain | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | water | | there | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | the second problem | heat | | hot deserts | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:0`. **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 ×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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