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title: The Atacama Desert in Chile, beside the Pacific Ocean, is one of the… — Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains an… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Atacama Desert in Chile, beside the Pacific Ocean, is one of the driest places on Earth. Who acts: Atacama Desert. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts, sentence 13

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The Atacama Desert in Chile, beside the Pacific Ocean, is one of the driest places on Earth.

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**Who acts:** Atacama Desert · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» 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 (Atacama Desert), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:050-why-the-earth-is-so.lesson:13
# text = The Atacama Desert in Chile, beside the Pacific Ocean, is one of the driest places on Earth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 050-why-the-earth-is-so.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Atacama	Atacama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Chile	Chile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	driest	dry	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | the Atacama Desert in Chile beside the Pacific Ocean | one |  |  |  | of the driest places on Earth | 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:050-why-the-earth-is-so.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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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