The seasons and the tilt of the axis, sentence 18
Near the equator the Sun is always high, so it is warm all year and the seasons are weak.
Who acts: Sun, seasons · What happens: be · To what, where: equator
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 (Sun, seasons), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 equator | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 equator | det |
| 3 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 high | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sun | det |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 high | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 high | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 high | advmod |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 warm | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 warm | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 warm | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 warm | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 warm | cop |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 warm | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 weak | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 seasons | det |
| 18 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 weak | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 weak | cop |
| 20 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 warm | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 high | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Sun | the equator | always, high property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | Sun | year | warm property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | the seasons | weak property | 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:18.
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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