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title: Most deserts are rocky or stony rather than covered in sand dunes. — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics
description: Most deserts are rocky or stony rather than covered in sand dunes. Who acts: Most deserts. 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 13

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Most deserts are rocky or stony rather than covered in sand dunes.

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**Who acts:** Most deserts · **What happens:** be, cover

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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 (Most deserts), 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:13
# text = Most deserts are rocky or stony rather than covered in sand dunes.
# 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): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	9	cc	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | present | Most deserts |  |  |  |  | rocky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Most deserts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | participle | Most deserts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in sand dunes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dune=Theme |

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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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**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): no change. **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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