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title: Many great deserts lie near 30 degrees north or south of the equator… — Deserts · tree and pragmatics
description: Many great deserts lie near 30 degrees north or south of the equator, where dry air sinks after losing its rain over the tropics. Who acts: Many great deserts, dry air, air. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Deserts, sentence 13

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Many great deserts lie near 30 degrees north or south of the equator, where dry air sinks after losing its rain over the tropics.

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**Who acts:** Many great deserts, dry air, air · **What happens:** lie, sink, lose, rain · **To what, where:** 30 degrees, rain, tropics

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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 (Many great deserts, dry air, air), 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:13
# text = Many great deserts lie near 30 degrees north or south of the equator, where dry air sinks after losing its rain over the tropics.
# 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 ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	near	near	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
8	north	north	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	south	south	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sinks	sink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:acl
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tropics	tropic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **lie** | present | Many great deserts | 30 degrees |  |  |  | north *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sink** | present | dry air |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lose** | gerund | dry air *not said here* | air's rain |  | the tropics |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Eventuality |
| 4 | **rain** |  | air |  |  |  |  |  | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:13`.

**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 ×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/).

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