Earth from space, sentence 10

Seasons come from the Earth's tilt: in summer your half leans towards the Sun, so sunlight hits more directly and days are longer; the Earth is closest to the Sun in early January.

Who acts: Seasons, half, sunlight, days, Earth · What happens: come, lean, hit, be, tilt · To what, where: tilt

This is a sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» of the myths 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 (Seasons, half, sunlight, days), 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	Seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 tilt	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tilt	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Earth	case
7	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 leans	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 summer	case
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leans	obl
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 half	nmod:poss
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 leans	nsubj
13	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	parataxis
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
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hits	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 hits	advmod
19	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hits	nsubj
20	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 leans	conj
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 directly	advmod
22	directly	directly	ADV	_	20 hits	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 longer	cc
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 longer	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 longer	cop
26	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 hits	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 closest	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Earth	det
29	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 closest	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 closest	cop
31	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 come	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 Sun	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Sun	det
34	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 closest	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 January	case
36	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 January	amod
37	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Sun	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Seasons	the Earth's tilt			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tilt=Initial_Location
2	lean	present	your half		summer	towards the Sun	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hit	present	sunlight			directly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	days			long property	tree rules
5	is	present	the Earth			to the Sun in early January; close property	tree rules
6	tilt		the Earth				nom tilt «event intransitive»: poss=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:myths:013-earth-from-space.lesson:10.

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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