Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 4
The ocean warms slowly and cools slowly, so coasts are milder than the middle of a continent; mountains are colder the higher you climb; and the side of a mountain away from the wet wind stays dry.
Who acts: ocean, coasts, mountains, you, side · What happens: warm, cool, be, climb, stay
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 (ocean, coasts, mountains, you), 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 | 2 ocean | det |
| 2 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warms | nsubj |
| 3 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 colder | parataxis |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 warms | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cools | cc |
| 6 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 warms | conj |
| 7 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 cools | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 milder | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 milder | advmod |
| 10 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 milder | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 milder | cop |
| 12 | milder | mild | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 cools | parataxis |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 middle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 middle | det |
| 15 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 milder | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 continent | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 continent | det |
| 18 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 middle | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 mountains | punct |
| 20 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 colder | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 colder | cop |
| 22 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 higher | det |
| 24 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 colder | parataxis |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 climb | nsubj |
| 26 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 higher | acl:relcl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 away | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 stays | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 side | det |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stays | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 mountain | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 mountain | det |
| 33 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 side | nmod |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 mountain | advmod |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 wind | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wind | det |
| 37 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 wind | amod |
| 38 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 away | obl |
| 39 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 colder | conj |
| 40 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 stays | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warms | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm | present | the ocean | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cool | present | the ocean not said here | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | coasts | than the middle of a continent; mild property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | mountains | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | climb | present | you | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | stay | present | the side of a mountain | dry property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:4.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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