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title: Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth; the Sahara is the largest… — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics
description: Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth; the Sahara is the largest hot desert. Who acts: Antarctica, Sahara. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 12

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Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth; the Sahara is the largest hot desert.

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**Who acts:** Antarctica, Sahara · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** largest desert, Earth, largest hot desert

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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 (Antarctica, Sahara), 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:12
# text = Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth; the Sahara is the largest hot desert.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	.	.	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 | Antarctica | the largest desert |  | Earth |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Sahara | the largest hot desert |  |  |  |  | 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:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.lesson:12`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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