--- title: A savanna is a warm grassland with trees scattered here and there, l… — The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds · tree and pragmatics description: A savanna is a warm grassland with trees scattered here and there, like the plains of the Serengeti in Africa, with a long dry season and a rainy season when the grass bursts back to life. Who acts: savanna, grass. 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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 (savanna, grass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:004-the-savanna.lesson:0 # text = A savanna is a warm grassland with trees scattered here and there, like the plains of the Serengeti in Africa, with a long dry season and a rainy season when the grass bursts back to life. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 004-the-savanna.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 savanna savanna NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 grassland grassland NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 scattered scatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 10 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 plains plain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Serengeti Serengeti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 rainy rainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 bursts burst VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 back back ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a savanna | a warm grassland | | | | with trees | tree rules | | 2 | **scatter** | participle | | trees *not said here* | | here | season | like the plains of the Serengeti in Africa | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **burst back** | present | the grass | | | | | to life | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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](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:004-the-savanna.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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/18/) - next →: [The savanna: grass, trees and the grea…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/)