--- title: Earth's axis is tilted by about 23.4 degrees, and that tilt, not the… — Climate zones and why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: Earth's axis is tilted by about 23.4 degrees, and that tilt, not the distance from the Sun, causes the seasons. Who acts: 23.4 degrees, tilt. 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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 (23.4 degrees, tilt), 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:10 # text = Earth's axis is tilted by about 23.4 degrees, and that tilt, not the distance from the Sun, causes the seasons. # 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): no change 1 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 axis axis NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 tilted tilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 23.4 23.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 12 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 tilt tilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 22 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tilt** | present · passive | 23.4 degrees | Earth's axis | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | | 2 | **cause** | present | that tilt | | | | season | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | 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:10`. **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): no change. **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: [Climate zones and why they are where t…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are/8/) - next →: [Climate zones and why they are where t…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are/)