Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 2
That is why the world has belts of climate: hot tropics around the middle, temperate zones with real seasons further out, and cold polar lands at the top and bottom.
Who acts: That, world · What happens: be, have · To what, where: belts
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 (That, world), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | acl:relcl |
| 7 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 climate | case |
| 9 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belts | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 tropics | punct |
| 11 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tropics | amod |
| 12 | tropics | tropic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 belts | appos |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 middle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 middle | det |
| 15 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tropics | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 temperate | punct |
| 17 | temperate | temperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 zones | amod |
| 18 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tropics | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 seasons | case |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 seasons | amod |
| 21 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 zones | nmod |
| 22 | further | further | ADV | _ | 23 out | advmod |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 seasons | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lands | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lands | cc |
| 26 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lands | amod |
| 27 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lands | amod |
| 28 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tropics | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 top | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 top | det |
| 31 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lands | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bottom | cc |
| 33 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 top | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the world | belts of climate | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=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: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): R5-strong ×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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