Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, sentence 8

The Earth is nearest the Sun in early January, when it is winter in Britain and summer in Australia, so distance cannot be what makes summer.

Who acts: Earth, distance · What happens: be, not be, make · To what, where: winter, Britain

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» 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 (Earth, distance), 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 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nearest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nearest	cop
4	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 makes	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nearest	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 January	case
8	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 January	amod
9	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sun	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 winter	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 winter	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 winter	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 winter	cop
14	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Sun	appos
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Britain	case
16	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 winter	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 summer	cc
18	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 winter	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Australia	case
20	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 winter	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 what	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	27 what	advmod
23	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 what	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 what	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 what	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 what	cop
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 makes	nsubj
28	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 makes	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Earth				the Sun in early January obl; near property	tree rules
2	is a	present	Earth	winter and summer	Britain		in Australia	tree rules
3	not is a	can	distance					tree rules
4	make	present				summer		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material

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:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:8.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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