Climate zones, sentence 7
The polar zones are cold all year because the Sun's rays strike them at a low slant.
Who acts: polar zones, rays, Sun · What happens: be, strike, ray · To what, where: zones, low slant
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 (polar zones, 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 | 3 zones | det |
| 2 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 zones | amod |
| 3 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cold | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 strike | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rays | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Sun | case |
| 12 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 strike | nsubj |
| 13 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 strike | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 slant | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 slant | det |
| 17 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slant | amod |
| 18 | slant | slant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strike | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the polar zones | year | cold property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | strike | present | the Sun's rays | zones = zone | a low slant | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 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:7.
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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