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title: A desert is a place that gets very little rain or snow; it can be ho… — Climate zones · tree and pragmatics
description: A desert is a place that gets very little rain or snow; it can be hot like the Sahara or cold like Antarctica. Who acts: desert, place. A sentence of the lesson «Climate zones» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Climate zones, sentence 9

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A desert is a place that gets very little rain or snow; it can be hot like the Sahara or cold like Antarctica.

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**Who acts:** desert, place · **What happens:** be, get · **To what, where:** place, little rain

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate zones» of the world 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, place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:016-climate-zones.lesson:9
# text = A desert is a place that gets very little rain or snow; it can be hot like the Sahara or cold like Antarctica.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 016-climate-zones.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): 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	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a desert | a place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | a place | little rain or snow |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | can | desert |  |  |  |  | like the Sahara; hot *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | desert *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like Antarctica | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:world:016-climate-zones.lesson:9`.

**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): 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/).

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