--- title: Think of a beach in July: the sand burns your feet even when the air… — Deserts · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a beach in July: the sand burns your feet even when the air feels fine, because the ground soaks up sunlight and gets much hotter than the air above it. Who acts: you, sand, air, ground. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sand, air, ground), 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:5 # text = Think of a beach in July: the sand burns your feet even when the air feels fine, because the ground soaks up sunlight and gets much hotter than the air above it. # 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 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 even even ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 when when SCONJ WRB _ 17 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 18 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 soaks soak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 25 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 much much ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 hotter hot ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 xcomp _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 above above ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a beach in July | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **burn** | present | the sand | your feet | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | present | the air | | | | | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **soak up** | present | the ground | sunlight | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source | | 5 | **get** | present | the ground *not said here* | | | | | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:5`. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/4/) - next →: [Deserts, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/18-deserts/)