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title: The steppes of Ukraine have very fertile black soil called chernozem. — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics
description: The steppes of Ukraine have very fertile black soil called chernozem. Who acts: steppes, fertile black soil. 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 21

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The steppes of Ukraine have very fertile black soil called chernozem.

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**Who acts:** steppes, fertile black soil · **What happens:** have, call · **To what, where:** fertile black soil, chernozem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (steppes, fertile black soil), 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:21
# text = The steppes of Ukraine have very fertile black soil called chernozem.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	steppes	steppe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	chernozem	chernozem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the steppes of Ukraine | fertile black soil |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | fertile black soil *not said here* | chernozem |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:21`.

**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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