The seasons and the tilt of the axis, sentence 15

Europe, Ukraine and Norway are in the northern half of the Earth; Australia and Cape Town in South Africa are in the southern half.

Who acts: Europe, Australia · What happens: be · To what, where: northern half, southern half

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 (Europe, Australia), 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	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 half	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Ukraine	punct
3	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Europe	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Norway	cc
5	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Europe	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 half	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 half	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 half	det
9	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 half	amod
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 half	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Earth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Earth	det
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 half	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 half	punct
15	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 half	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Town	cc
17	Cape	cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Town	compound
18	Town	town	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Australia	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 Africa	case
20	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Africa	compound
21	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Town	nmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 half	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 half	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 half	det
25	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 half	amod
26	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 half	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	Europe and Ukraine and Norway			the northern half		of the Earth	tree rules
2	is	present	Australia and Cape Town in South Africa			the southern half			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:15.

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): 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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