--- title: Real life: the Sahara was green, with lakes, hippos and grass, until… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: the Sahara was green, with lakes, hippos and grass, until about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago; it dried because of slow changes in the Earth's tilt and the rains, not because a cow sat there. Who acts: Sahara, life, cow, Earth. 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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 (Sahara, life, cow, Earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson:21 # text = Real life: the Sahara was green, with lakes, hippos and grass, until about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago; it dried because of slow changes in the Earth's tilt and the rains, not because a cow sat there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Sahara Sahara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 hippos hippo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 until until ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 5,000 5000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 6,000 6000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 21 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 ago ago ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 dried dry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 26 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 29 case _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 28 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 tilt tilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 rains rain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 40 because because SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:parataxis 44 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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** | past | the Sahara | | | | | with lakes and hippos and grass; green *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **dry** | past | life | | | | | because slow changes in the Earth's tilt and the rains | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **sit** | past | a cow | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tilt** | | the Earth | | | | | | nom tilt «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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