Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 13
The temperate zones lie between the tropics and the polar circles, with clear seasons that are neither very hot nor very cold for long.
Who acts: temperate zones, clear seasons · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: tropics
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 (temperate zones, clear seasons), 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 | 3 zones | det |
| 2 | temperate | temperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 zones | amod |
| 3 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 tropics | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tropics | det |
| 7 | tropics | tropic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lie | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 circles | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 circles | det |
| 10 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 circles | amod |
| 11 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tropics | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 seasons | case |
| 14 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seasons | amod |
| 15 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lie | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hot | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hot | cop |
| 18 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 hot | cc:preconj |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 hot | advmod |
| 20 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seasons | acl:relcl |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 cold | cc |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 cold | advmod |
| 23 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hot | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 long | case |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lie | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the temperate zones | the tropics and the polar circles | season | for long | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between tropic=Location | ||
| 2 | is | present | clear seasons | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | clear seasons not said here | tree rules |
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:13.
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): 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.
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