--- title: A desert is a place with very little rain or snow; the biggest deser… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics description: A desert is a place with very little rain or snow; the biggest desert is Antarctica, and the Sahara is the biggest hot desert. Who acts: desert, biggest desert, Sahara. A sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/11/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Water, deserts and the shape of the land](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/) / 11 # Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 11 A desert is a place with very little rain or snow; the biggest desert is Antarctica, and the Sahara is the biggest hot desert. **Who acts:** desert, biggest desert, Sahara · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** place, Antarctica, biggest hot desert This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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 (desert, biggest desert, Sahara), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:11 # text = A desert is a place with very little rain or snow; the biggest desert is Antarctica, and the Sahara is the biggest hot desert. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Sahara Sahara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 25 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a desert | a place | | | | with little rain or snow | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the biggest desert | Antarctica and the biggest hot desert | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the Sahara | the biggest hot desert | | | | | tree rules | 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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Water, deserts and the shape of the land, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/10/) - next →: [Water, deserts and the shape of the land, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/)