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title: Death Valley in California holds the record for the highest air temp… — Deserts · tree and pragmatics
description: Death Valley in California holds the record for the highest air temperature, 56.7 degrees Celsius in 1913, though some experts doubt that reading. Who acts: Death Valley, experts. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Deserts, sentence 11

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Death Valley in California holds the record for the highest air temperature, 56.7 degrees Celsius in 1913, though some experts doubt that reading.

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**Who acts:** Death Valley, experts · **What happens:** hold, doubt · **To what, where:** record, reading

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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 (Death Valley, experts), 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:11
# text = Death Valley in California holds the record for the highest air temperature, 56.7 degrees Celsius in 1913, though some experts doubt that reading.
# 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): no change
1	Death	death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	56.7	56.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
16	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1913	1913	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	doubt	doubt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | Death Valley in California | the record |  |  |  | for the highest air temperature | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme |
| 2 | **doubt** | present | some experts | that reading |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=Theme |

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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:11`.

**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): no change. **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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