Seasons, terms and holidays, sentence 16

Near the equator the seasons are wet and dry rather than hot and cold; Kenya has long rains from about March to May and short rains from about October to December.

Who acts: seasons, Kenya · What happens: be, have · To what, where: equator, long rains

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 (seasons, Kenya), 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	Near	near	ADP	_	3 equator	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 equator	det
3	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wet	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 seasons	det
5	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wet	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wet	cop
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dry	cc
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wet	conj
10	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	12 hot	cc
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 rather	fixed
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wet	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cold	cc
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hot	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
16	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wet	parataxis
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rains	amod
19	rains	rain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 has	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 March	case
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 March	advmod
22	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 rains	nmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 May	case
24	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 March	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rains	cc
26	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rains	amod
27	rains	rain	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rains	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 October	case
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 October	advmod
30	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 rains	nmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 December	case
32	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 rains	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wet	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the seasons		the equator	wet property	tree rules
2	be		the seasons not said here				tree rules
3	be		the seasons not said here				tree rules
4	have	present	Kenya	long rains and short rains from October to December		from March to May	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient

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:16.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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