--- title: Think of the hot sand on a beach in August that burns your feet: a s… — Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking… · tree and pragmatics description: Think of the hot sand on a beach in August that burns your feet: a sidewinder snake lifts most of its body off the sand, and silver ants run on long legs so their bodies stay above the hottest layer. Who acts: you, beach, sidewinder snake, silver ants. 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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 (you, beach, sidewinder snake, silver ants), 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:2 # text = Think of the hot sand on a beach in August that burns your feet: a sidewinder snake lifts most of its body off the sand, and silver ants run on long legs so their bodies stay above the hottest layer. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 sidewinder sidewinder NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 20 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 off off ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 so so SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 39 above above ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 hottest hot ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 42 amod _ _ 42 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of the hot sand on a beach in August | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **burn** | present | a beach in August | your feet | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | | 3 | **lift** | present | a sidewinder snake | most of snake's body | | the sand | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent most=Theme off sand=Destination | | 4 | **run** | present | silver ants | | | long legs | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | | 5 | **stay** | present | ants's bodies | | | the hottest layer | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above layer=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](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:2`. **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, R8-pos-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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