Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 15

Britain is much milder in winter than Labrador in Canada, even though both lie at similar latitudes, because warm ocean water and westerly winds from the Atlantic reach Britain.

Who acts: Britain, both, warm ocean water · What happens: be, lie, reach · To what, where: similar latitudes, Britain

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 (Britain, both, warm ocean water), 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	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 milder	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 milder	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 milder	advmod
4	milder	mild	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 milder	obl
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 Labrador	case
8	Labrador	labrador	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 milder	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Canada	case
10	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Labrador	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lie	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	15 lie	advmod
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 lie	mark
14	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 lie	nsubj
15	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 milder	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 latitudes	case
17	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 latitudes	amod
18	latitudes	latitude	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lie	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 water	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 reach	mark
21	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 water	amod
22	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 water	compound
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reach	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 winds	cc
25	westerly	westerly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 winds	amod
26	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 water	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 Atlantic	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Atlantic	det
29	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 winds	nmod
30	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 milder	advcl
31	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 reach	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 milder	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Britain			winter	than Labrador in Canada; mild property	tree rules
2	lie	present	both		similar latitudes			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at latitude=Location
3	reach	present	warm ocean water and westerly winds from the Atlantic	Britain				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent britain=Theme

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:15.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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