Seasons, terms and holidays, sentence 13
Weather scientists count spring as March, April and May in the north; astronomers start it at the spring equinox, about 20 March.
Who acts: Weather scientists, astronomers · What happens: count, start · To what, where: north, spring equinox
This is a sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world 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 (Weather scientists, astronomers), 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 | Weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scientists | compound |
| 2 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 count | nsubj |
| 3 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 count | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 March | case |
| 6 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 count | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 April | punct |
| 8 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 March | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 May | cc |
| 10 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 March | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 north | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 north | det |
| 13 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 count | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 start | punct |
| 15 | astronomers | astronomer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 start | nsubj |
| 16 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 count | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 start | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 equinox | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 equinox | det |
| 20 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 equinox | compound |
| 21 | equinox | equinox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 start | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 20 | punct |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 20 | advmod |
| 24 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 equinox | appos |
| 25 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 20 | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 count | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Weather scientists | the north | march; spring | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | start | present | astronomers | north | the spring equinox | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:13.
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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