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title: Not all deserts are hot or sandy: most are rocky or stony, and Antar… — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics
description: Not all deserts are hot or sandy: most are rocky or stony, and Antarctica is the largest desert of all. Who acts: deserts, most, Antarctica. 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 ever
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# Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 2

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Not all deserts are hot or sandy: most are rocky or stony, and Antarctica is the largest desert of all.

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**Who acts:** deserts, most, Antarctica · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** largest 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 (deserts, most, Antarctica), 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:2
# text = Not all deserts are hot or sandy: most are rocky or stony, and Antarctica is the largest desert of all.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **not** **is** | present | all deserts |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | all deserts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | most |  |  |  |  | rocky *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | most *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Antarctica | the largest desert |  |  |  | of all | 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:2`.

**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 ×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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