Mountains and highlands, sentence 2

The higher you climb, the colder it gets, about 6.5 degrees for every 1,000 metres; that is why snow lies on Kilimanjaro even near the equator.

Who acts: you, crust, that, snow · What happens: climb, get, be, lie · To what, where: 6.5 degrees, Kilimanjaro

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains and highlands» of the geography 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 (you, crust, that, snow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 higher	det
2	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 climb	nsubj
4	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 higher	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 higher	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colder	det
7	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 gets	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 higher	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gets	punct
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 6.5	advmod
12	6.5	6.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 degrees	nummod
13	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gets	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 metres	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 metres	det
16	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 metres	nummod
17	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 degrees	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 why	punct
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 why	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 why	cop
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 lies	advmod
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lies	nsubj
23	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gets	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 Kilimanjaro	case
25	Kilimanjaro	Kilimanjaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 lies	obl
26	even	even	ADV	_	29 equator	advmod
27	near	near	ADP	_	29 equator	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 equator	det
29	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lies	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 higher	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	present	you				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	crust	6.5 degrees		for every 1,000 metres	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent degree=Theme for metre=Source
3	is	present	that			why property	tree rules
4	lie	present	snow		Kilimanjaro	near the equator	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on kilimanjaro=Location

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, 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:geography:017-mountains-and-highlands.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): 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.

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