--- title: A tropical rainforest lies near the equator, is hot all year and get… — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics description: A tropical rainforest lies near the equator, is hot all year and gets heavy rain almost every day. Who acts: tropical rainforest. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/) / 4 # Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 4 A tropical rainforest lies near the equator, is hot all year and gets heavy rain almost every day. **Who acts:** tropical rainforest · **What happens:** lie, be, get · **To what, where:** equator, heavy rain 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 (tropical rainforest), 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:4 # text = A tropical rainforest lies near the equator, is hot all year and gets heavy rain almost every day. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 rainforest rainforest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 near near ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 17 almost almost ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | a tropical rainforest | | | the equator | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near equator=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | a tropical rainforest *not said here* | | | | year | hot *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | present | a tropical rainforest *not said here* | heavy rain | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/3/) - next →: [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/)