Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts, sentence 15

Water warms up and cools down more slowly than land, so places by the sea have milder winters and cooler summers.

Who acts: Water, places · What happens: warm up, cool down, have

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» 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 (Water, places), 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	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warms	nsubj
2	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 warms	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cools	cc
5	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 warms	conj
6	down	down	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 slowly	advmod
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 warms	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 land	case
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slowly	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	17 have	advmod
13	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	nsubj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 places	nmod
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 warms	parataxis
18	milder	mild	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 winters	amod
19	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 summers	cc
21	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 summers	amod
22	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 winters	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 warms	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	warm up	present	Water		slowly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	cool down	present	Water not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	have	present	places by the sea	winter		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:050-why-the-earth-is-so.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): 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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