--- title: Sunlight does the same on the round Earth: near the equator it falls… — Climate zones and why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: Sunlight does the same on the round Earth: near the equator it falls almost straight down and heats hard, near the poles it comes in low and slanting and heats weakly. Who acts: Sunlight. 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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 (Sunlight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:021-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:1 # text = Sunlight does the same on the round Earth: near the equator it falls almost straight down and heats hard, near the poles it comes in low and slanting and heats weakly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 021-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 round round NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 10 near near ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 15 almost almost ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 straight straight ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 near near ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 27 in in ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 slanting slant VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 weakly weakly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | present | Sunlight | | | the equator | | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near equator=Location | | 2 | **heat** | present | Sunlight *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **come in** | present | Sunlight | | | the poles | | low *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near pole=Location | | 4 | **slant** | gerund | Sunlight *not said here* | | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **heat** | present | Sunlight *not said here* | | | | | weakly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:geography:021-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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. 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