Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 20
Australian children have Christmas in summer because in December the southern hemisphere leans towards the Sun.
Who acts: Australian children, southern hemisphere · What happens: have, lean · To what, where: Christmas
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 (Australian children, southern hemisphere), 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 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 summer | case |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obl |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 leans | mark |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 December | case |
| 9 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 leans | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hemisphere | det |
| 11 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hemisphere | amod |
| 12 | hemisphere | hemisphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leans | nsubj |
| 13 | leans | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | advcl |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 Sun. | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sun. | det |
| 16 | Sun. | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 leans | obl |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Australian children | Christmas | summer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Patient | |||
| 2 | lean | present | the southern hemisphere | december | towards the Sun. | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:20.
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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