--- title: Many great deserts lie in belts about 30 degrees north and south of… — Deserts · tree and pragmatics description: Many great deserts lie in belts about 30 degrees north and south of the equator, where air that has already dropped its rain over the tropics sinks and warms, so clouds cannot form. Who acts: Many great deserts, air, clouds, desert. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts» of the geography course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/2/) [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/) / 2 # Deserts, sentence 2 Many great deserts lie in belts about 30 degrees north and south of the equator, where air that has already dropped its rain over the tropics sinks and warms, so clouds cannot form. **Who acts:** Many great deserts, air, clouds, desert · **What happens:** lie, drop, sink, warm, not form, rain · **To what, where:** 30 degrees, belts, rain, tropics 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, air, clouds, desert), 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:2 # text = Many great deserts lie in belts about 30 degrees north and south of the equator, where air that has already dropped its rain over the tropics sinks and warms, so clouds cannot form. # 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 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 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 belts belt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 north north ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 south south ADV RB _ 10 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 18 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 20 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 already already ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 over over ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tropics tropic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 28 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 so so SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 form form VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | Many great deserts | 30 degrees | | belts | | north *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in belt=Location | | 2 | **drop** | present · perfect | air | desert's rain | | the tropics | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rain=Theme over tropic=Destination | | 3 | **sink** | present | air | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **warm** | present | air *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **not** **form** | can | clouds | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **rain** | | desert | | | | | | nom rain «phenomenon 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Deserts, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/1/) - next →: [Deserts, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/)