--- title: Picture a Christmas card from Melbourne with a beach on it: France i… — Weather and seasons · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a Christmas card from Melbourne with a beach on it: France is in the northern half of the world, so July is summer there, while in Australia it is winter. Who acts: you, France, July, card. 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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 (you, France, July, card), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:013-weather-and-seasons.lesson:3 # text = Picture a Christmas card from Melbourne with a beach on it: France is in the northern half of the world, so July is summer there, while in Australia it is winter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 013-weather-and-seasons.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Melbourne Melbourne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 1 parataxis _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 24 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 27 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a Christmas card | | Melbourne with a beach on beach | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent card=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | France | | | the northern half and summer and winter | | of the world | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | July | summer and winter | | there | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | card | winter | | Australia | | | 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](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:french:013-weather-and-seasons.lesson:3`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Weather and seasons, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/2/) - next →: [Weather and seasons, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/)