--- title: "Biggest desert" depends on what a desert is (a place with very litt… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics description: "Biggest desert" depends on what a desert is (a place with very little rain or snow, so frozen Antarctica counts), and "tallest mountain" depends on whether you measure from the sea or from the mountain's own foot on the sea floor. 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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 (Biggest desert, desert, frozen Antarctica, tallest mountain), 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:6 # text = "Biggest desert" depends on what a desert is (a place with very little rain or snow, so frozen Antarctica counts), and "tallest mountain" depends on whether you measure from the sea or from the mountain's own foot on the sea floor. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 dep _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 frozen frozen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 29 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 33 on on SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 measure measure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ _ 44 's 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 47 on on ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **depend** | present | Biggest desert | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | a desert | | | a place | | with little rain or snow | tree rules | | 3 | **count** | present | frozen Antarctica | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **depend** | present | tallest mountain | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **measure** | present | you | | | the sea or the mountain's own foot on the sea floor | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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