Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 12

Snow on Christmas Day is rare in most of Britain now, and in London it hardly ever settles; the forecast is a far better guide than the calendar.

Who acts: Snow, forecast · What happens: be, settle · To what, where: most, London, better guide

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» 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 (Snow, forecast), 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	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rare	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 Day	case
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Day	compound
4	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Snow	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rare	cop
6	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 most	case
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 rare	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Britain	case
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 most	nmod
11	now	now	ADV	_	8 most	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 settles	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 settles	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 London	case
15	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 settles	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 settles	nsubj
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 settles	advmod
18	ever	ever	ADV	_	19 settles	advmod
19	settles	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rare	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 guide	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 forecast	det
22	forecast	forecast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 guide	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 guide	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 guide	det
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 better	advmod
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 guide	amod
27	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rare	parataxis
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 calendar	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 calendar	det
30	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 guide	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rare	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Snow on Christmas Day		most of Britain		rare property	tree rules
2	settle	present	snow		London	ever	hardly property	vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in london=Location
3	is a	present	the forecast	a better guide			than the calendar	tree rules

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:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:12.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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