Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 10
Earth's axis is tilted by about 23.4 degrees, and that tilt, not the distance from the Sun, causes the seasons.
Who acts: 23.4 degrees, tilt · What happens: tilt, cause · To what, where: axis
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 (23.4 degrees, tilt), 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 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 axis | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Earth | case |
| 3 | axis | axis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tilted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tilted | aux:pass |
| 5 | tilted | tilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 degrees | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 23.4 | advmod |
| 8 | 23.4 | 23.4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 degrees | nummod |
| 9 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tilted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 causes | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 causes | cc |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 tilt | det |
| 13 | tilt | tilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 causes | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 distance | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 distance | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 distance | det |
| 17 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tilt | appos |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Sun | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sun | det |
| 20 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 distance | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tilt | punct |
| 22 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tilted | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 seasons | det |
| 24 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 causes | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tilted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tilt | present · passive | 23.4 degrees | Earth's axis | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cause | present | that tilt | season | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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:10.
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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