--- title: A biome is a large region of the Earth with its own climate and its… — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics description: A biome is a large region of the Earth with its own climate and its own kinds of plants and animals; which biome a place has depends mostly on how warm it is and how much rain falls there. Who acts: biome, place, much rain. 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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 (biome, place, much rain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.lesson:0 # text = A biome is a large region of the Earth with its own climate and its own kinds of plants and animals; which biome a place has depends mostly on how warm it is and how much rain falls there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 biome biome NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 24 det _ _ 24 biome biome NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 29 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 37 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 39 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 40 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 biome | a large region | | | | of the Earth; with biome's own climate and biome's own kinds of plants and animals | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | a place | which biome *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biome=Patient | | 3 | **depend** | present | which biome | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | place | | | | | mostly, warm *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fall** | present | much rain *not said here* | | | there | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **acclimate** | | biome | | | | | | nom climate «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:world:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.lesson:0`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/22/) - next →: [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/)