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title: In Australia and New Zealand summer is from December to February, so… — Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Australia and New Zealand summer is from 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 «Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money,
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# Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salaries, and festivals, sentence 12

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In Australia and New Zealand summer is from 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:** Australia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salaries, and festivals» 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:330-lunch-help-cooking-allowance-southern-seasons-jobs-festivals.lesson:12
# text = In Australia and New Zealand summer is from December to February, so Christmas is in summer; the seasons are opposite in the southern hemisphere.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 330-lunch-help-cooking-allowance-southern-seasons-jobs-festivals.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
14	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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** | present | summer |  |  |  | february | from December | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Christmas |  |  |  |  | in summer | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the seasons |  |  | Australia and New Zealand and December |  | in 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:330-lunch-help-cooking-allowance-southern-seasons-jobs-festivals.lesson:12`.

**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, 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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