The seasons and the tilt of the axis, sentence 4

The seasons do not come from the Earth being nearer to or farther from the Sun: the Earth is in fact closest to the Sun in early January, in the northern winter.

Who acts: seasons, Earth · What happens: not come, be · To what, where: Earth, fact

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 (seasons, Earth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seasons	det
2	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 nearer	cop
10	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 Earth	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 nearer	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 farther	cc
13	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 nearer	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 Sun	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sun	det
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 farther	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Earth	det
19	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 fact	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fact	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 fact	case
22	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 closest	obl
23	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 come	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 Sun	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Sun	det
26	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 closest	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 January	case
28	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 January	amod
29	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Sun	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 winter	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 winter	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 winter	det
33	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 winter	amod
34	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 closest	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not come	present · do-support	the seasons	the Earth		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial_Location
2	is	gerund	the Earth not said here		near property	tree rules
3	is	present	the Earth	fact		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:4.

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): R8-pos-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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