--- title: Australia is the driest inhabited continent, and about 70 percent of… — Deserts · tree and pragmatics description: Australia is the driest inhabited continent, and about 70 percent of it is arid or semi-arid land, so most Australians live near the coast. Who acts: Australia, 70 percent, most Australians. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/16/) [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/) / 16 # Deserts, sentence 16 Australia is the driest inhabited continent, and about 70 percent of it is arid or semi-arid land, so most Australians live near the coast. **Who acts:** Australia, 70 percent, most Australians · **What happens:** inhabit, be, live · **To what, where:** driest inhabited continent, coast 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 (Australia, 70 percent, most Australians), 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:16 # text = Australia is the driest inhabited continent, and about 70 percent of it is arid or semi-arid land, so most Australians live near the coast. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 driest dry ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 5 inhabited inhabit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 arid arid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 semi-arid semi-arid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod 18 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 Australians australian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 24 near near ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inhabit** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Australia | the driest inhabited continent | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | 70 percent percent *not said here* | | | | | arid *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | 70 percent percent *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **live** | present | most Australians | | | the coast | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near coast=Location | 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:16`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Deserts, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/14/) - next →: [Deserts, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/)