Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 1

Sunlight does the same on the round Earth: near the equator it falls almost straight down and heats hard, near the poles it comes in low and slanting and heats weakly.

Who acts: Sunlight · What happens: fall, heat, come in, slant · To what, where: equator, poles

This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate zones and why they are where they are» 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 (Sunlight), 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	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 same	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
7	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Earth	compound
8	Earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 same	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 straight	punct
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 equator	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 equator	det
12	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 falls	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 falls	nsubj
14	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 same	parataxis
15	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 straight	advmod
16	straight	straight	ADV	_	17 down	advmod
17	down	down	ADV	_	14 falls	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heats	cc
19	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 falls	conj
20	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 heats	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 comes	punct
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 poles	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 poles	det
24	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 comes	obl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 comes	nsubj
26	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 same	advcl
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 comes	advmod
28	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 comes	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 slanting	cc
30	slanting	slant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 low	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 heats	cc
32	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 comes	conj
33	weakly	weakly	ADV	_	32 heats	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Sunlight	the equator	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near equator=Location
2	heat	present	Sunlight not said here		hard property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	come in	present	Sunlight	the poles	low property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near pole=Location
4	slant	gerund	Sunlight not said here			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	heat	present	Sunlight not said here		weakly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:021-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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