The seasons and the tilt of the axis, sentence 2

Half a year later the northern half leans away: the Sun stays low, days are short, and it is winter, while the southern half has summer.

Who acts: northern half, Sun, days, southern half · What happens: lean away, stay, be, have · To what, where: winter

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, southern half), 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	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 year	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 leans	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 half	det
6	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 half	amod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 leans	nsubj
8	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 short	parataxis
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 leans	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 stays	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sun	det
12	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stays	nsubj
13	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 leans	parataxis
14	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stays	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 short	punct
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 short	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 short	cop
18	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 winter	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 winter	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 winter	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 winter	cop
23	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 short	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 has	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 has	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 half	det
27	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 half	amod
28	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	29 has	nsubj
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 short	advcl
30	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 has	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 leans	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lean away	present	the northern half			away, late property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	present	the Sun			low property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	days			short property	tree rules
4	is a	present	Sun	winter			tree rules
5	have	present	the southern half		summer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:002-seasons-and-the-tilt.lesson:2.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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