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title: Films show the Sahara as endless golden dunes, but only about a quar… — Deserts · tree and pragmatics
description: Films show the Sahara as endless golden dunes, but only about a quarter of it is sand; most of it is bare rock and gravel plains. Who acts: Films, most. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deserts, sentence 1

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Films show the Sahara as endless golden dunes, but only about a quarter of it is sand; most of it is bare rock and gravel plains.

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**Who acts:** Films, most · **What happens:** show, be · **To what, where:** Sahara, bare rock

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts» of the geography 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 (Films, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:018-deserts.lesson:1
# text = Films show the Sahara as endless golden dunes, but only about a quarter of it is sand; most of it is bare rock and gravel plains.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 018-deserts.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	gravel	gravel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Films |  | the Sahara |  |  | as endless golden dunes | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sahara=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of sand | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | most of sand | bare rock and gravel plains |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:geography:018-deserts.lesson:1`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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