Climate zones, sentence 6
The tropics near the equator are hot all year because the Sun's rays fall on them most directly.
Who acts: tropics, rays, Sun · What happens: be, fall, ray
This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate zones» 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 (tropics, rays, Sun), 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 tropics | det |
| 2 | tropics | tropic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hot | nsubj |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 equator | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 equator | det |
| 5 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tropics | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hot | cop |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hot | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 fall | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sun | det |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rays | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Sun | case |
| 14 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fall | nsubj |
| 15 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hot | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fall | obl |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 directly | advmod |
| 19 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 15 fall | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hot | 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 | is | present | the tropics near the equator | year | hot property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall | present | the Sun's rays | on tropics = tropic; directly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on they=Location | ||||
| 3 | ray | the Sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: 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:world:016-climate-zones.lesson:6.
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): R5-strong ×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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