--- title: Air gets colder by about 6 to 7 degrees for every 1000 metres you cl… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics description: Air gets colder by about 6 to 7 degrees for every 1000 metres you climb, which is why Kilimanjaro, almost on the equator, has snow and ice near its top; it is not because the top is nearer the Sun, which is about 150 million km away, so a few km closer makes no difference. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Air, you, Kilimanjaro, few km), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:6 # text = Air gets colder by about 6 to 7 degrees for every 1000 metres you climb, which is why Kilimanjaro, almost on the equator, has snow and ice near its top; it is not because the top is nearer the Sun, which is about 150 million km away, so a few km closer makes no difference. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 colder cold ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 9 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 12 1000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 20 Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 22 almost almost ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 near near ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 38 because because SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 parataxis _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 46 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 51 nsubj _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 48 about about ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:advmod 49 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 50 compound _ _ 50 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 nummod _ _ 51 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 advcl _ _ 52 away away ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 54 so so ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 56 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nsubj _ _ 58 closer close ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 59 advmod _ _ 59 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 60 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 61 det _ _ 61 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obj _ _ 62 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Air | | | | | by 6 degrees for every 1000 metres; cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **climb** | present | you | every 1000 metres *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location metre=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | Kilimanjaro | snow and ice | | air's top | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Patient | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | air | | | | | near *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | | million km | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | present | a few km | no difference | | | | close *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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