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title: In Europa Universalis 5 the Sahara looks like an empty wall between… — Deserts · tree and pragmatics
description: In Europa Universalis 5 the Sahara looks like an empty wall between North and West Africa. Who acts: Sahara. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deserts, sentence 3

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In Europa Universalis 5 the Sahara looks like an empty wall between North and West Africa.

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**Who acts:** Sahara · **What happens:** look

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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 (Sahara), 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:3
# text = In Europa Universalis 5 the Sahara looks like an empty wall between North and West Africa.
# 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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound
16	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **look** | present | the Sahara |  |  |  |  | like a empty wall between North and West and Africa; in Europa | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in europa=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:3`.

**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 ×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/).

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