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title: But real mountains also make weather: they catch the rain on one sid… — Mountains and highlands · tree and pragmatics
description: But real mountains also make weather: they catch the rain on one side and leave a dry «rain shadow» on the other. Who acts: real mountains, mountains. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains and highlands» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Mountains and highlands, sentence 4

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But real mountains also make weather: they catch the rain on one side and leave a dry «rain shadow» on the other.

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**Who acts:** real mountains, mountains · **What happens:** make, catch, leave · **To what, where:** weather, rain, one side, dry rain shadow, other

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains and highlands» of the geography 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 (real mountains, mountains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:017-mountains-and-highlands.lesson:4
# text = But real mountains also make weather: they catch the rain on one side and leave a dry «rain shadow» on the other.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 017-mountains-and-highlands.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
18	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
20	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make** | present | real mountains | weather |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset weather=Product |
| 2 | **catch** | present | mountains *= mountain* | the rain |  | one side |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | present | mountains *= mountain* *not said here* | a dry rain shadow |  | the other |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme on other=Location |

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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:geography:017-mountains-and-highlands.lesson:4`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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