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title: In Australia and New Zealand summer is December to February, so Chri… — Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Australia and New Zealand summer is December to February, so Christmas is in summer; the seasons are opposite in the southern hemisphere. Who acts: summer, Christmas, seasons. A sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» of the everyday course of Mova'
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# Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time, sentence 15

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In Australia and New Zealand summer is December to February, so Christmas is in summer; the seasons are opposite in the southern hemisphere.

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**Who acts:** summer, Christmas, seasons · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** December, Australia, southern hemisphere

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» of the everyday 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 (summer, Christmas, seasons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.lesson:15
# text = In Australia and New Zealand summer is December to February, so Christmas is in summer; the seasons are opposite in the southern hemisphere.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
13	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | summer | December |  | Australia and New | february |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Christmas |  |  |  |  | in summer | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the seasons |  |  | the southern hemisphere |  | opposite *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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