--- title: Many of the world's biggest hot deserts, such as the Sahara, the Ara… — Climate zones and why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: Many of the world's biggest hot deserts, such as the Sahara, the Arabian and the Australian deserts, lie at about 20 to 30 degrees north or south of the equator. Who acts: Many. 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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 (Many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:021-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:12 # text = Many of the world's biggest hot deserts, such as the Sahara, the Arabian and the Australian deserts, lie at about 20 to 30 degrees north or south of the equator. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 021-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 7 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 13 case _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Sahara Sahara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Arabian Arabian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 22 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case 27 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 29 north north ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 south south ADV RB _ 29 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 22 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 of the world's biggest hot deserts such the Sahara and the Australian deserts | | | 20 30 degrees | | north *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at degree=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:021-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:12`. **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, 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: [Climate zones and why they are where t…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are/11/) - next →: [Climate zones and why they are where t…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are/)