--- title: The temperate zones lie between the tropics and the polar circles, w… — Climate zones and why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: The temperate zones lie between the tropics and the polar circles, with clear seasons that are neither very hot nor very cold for long. Who acts: temperate zones, clear seasons. 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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 (temperate zones, clear seasons), 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:13 # text = The temperate zones lie between the tropics and the polar circles, with clear seasons that are neither very hot nor very cold for long. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 temperate temperate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 between between ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tropics tropic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 circles circle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 20 cc:preconj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 acl:relcl _ _ 21 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 23 cc _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **lie** | present | the temperate zones | | | the tropics and the polar circles | season | for long | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between tropic=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | clear seasons | | | | | hot *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | clear seasons *not said here* | | | | | | 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:geography:021-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:13`. **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 ×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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