--- title: The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest non-polar desert, and some… — Deserts · tree and pragmatics description: The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest non-polar desert, and some of its weather stations have never recorded measurable rain; its soil is so dry and lifeless, much like Mars, that scientists test Mars rovers there. Who acts: Atacama Desert, some, soil, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Deser --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Deserts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/) / 10 # Deserts, sentence 10 The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest non-polar desert, and some of its weather stations have never recorded measurable rain; its soil is so dry and lifeless, much like Mars, that scientists test Mars rovers there. **Who acts:** Atacama Desert, some, soil, scientists, desert · **What happens:** be, not record, test, soil · **To what, where:** driest non-polar desert, measurable rain, Mars rovers 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 (Atacama Desert, some, soil, scientists), 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:10 # text = The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest non-polar desert, and some of its weather stations have never recorded measurable rain; its soil is so dry and lifeless, much like Mars, that scientists test Mars rovers there. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Atacama Atacama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Desert Desert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Chile Chile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 driest dry ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 9 non-polar non-polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 stations station NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 recorded record VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 21 measurable measurable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 lifeless lifeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 much much ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 test test VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 rovers rover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | the Atacama Desert in Chile | the driest non-polar desert | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **record** | present · perfect | some | measurable rain | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | desert's soil | | | | | like Mars; dry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | desert's soil *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **test** | present | scientists | Mars rovers | | there | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rover=Theme | | 6 | **soil** | | desert | | | | | | nom soil «state transitive»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:018-deserts.lesson:10`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Deserts, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/9/) - next →: [Deserts, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/)