--- title: The Sahara is the largest hot desert; the largest desert of all is A… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics description: The Sahara is the largest hot desert; the largest desert of all is Antarctica, because a desert is a place with very little rain or snow. Who acts: Sahara, desert. 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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 (Sahara, desert), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:13 # text = The Sahara is the largest hot desert; the largest desert of all is Antarctica, because a desert is a place with very little rain or snow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sahara Sahara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 6 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 advcl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Sahara | the largest hot desert and the largest desert all | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | of Antarctica | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a desert | a place | | | | with little rain or snow | 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:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:13`. **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/). - ← previous: [Friends who cling to a legend, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/11/) - next →: [Friends who cling to a legend, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/)