The seasons and the tilt of the axis, sentence 1
For part of the year the northern half leans towards the Sun: there the Sun climbs high, days are long, and it is summer.
Who acts: northern half, Sun, days · What happens: lean, climb, be · To what, where: summer
This is a sentence of the lesson «The seasons and the tilt of the axis» 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 (northern half, Sun, days), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 part | case |
| 2 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leans | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 year | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 part | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 half | det |
| 7 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 half | amod |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 leans | nsubj |
| 9 | leans | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 Sun | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sun | det |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 leans | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 climbs | punct |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 climbs | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sun | det |
| 16 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 climbs | nsubj |
| 17 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 leans | parataxis |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 climbs | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 long | punct |
| 20 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 long | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 long | cop |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 climbs | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 summer | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 summer | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 summer | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 summer | cop |
| 27 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leans | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 leans | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean | present | the northern half | for part of the year; towards the Sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | climb | present | the Sun | there | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | days | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | Sun | summer | 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:002-seasons-and-the-tilt.lesson:1.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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