--- title: Britain is much milder in winter than Labrador in Canada, even thoug… — Climate zones and why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: Britain is much milder in winter than Labrador in Canada, even though both lie at similar latitudes, because warm ocean water and westerly winds from the Atlantic reach Britain. Who acts: Britain, both, warm ocean water. 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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 (Britain, both, warm ocean water), 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:15 # text = Britain is much milder in winter than Labrador in Canada, even though both lie at similar latitudes, because warm ocean water and westerly winds from the Atlantic reach Britain. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 much much ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 milder mild ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Labrador labrador PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 though though SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 15 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 latitudes latitude NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 21 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod 22 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 westerly westerly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Atlantic Atlantic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 reach reach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 31 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Britain | | | | winter | than Labrador in Canada; mild *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lie** | present | both | | | similar latitudes | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at latitude=Location | | 3 | **reach** | present | warm ocean water and westerly winds from the Atlantic | Britain | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent britain=Theme | 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:15`. **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. 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