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title: Places deep inside continents have hotter summers and colder winters… — Climate zones and why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics
description: Places deep inside continents have hotter summers and colder winters than coasts at the same latitude, which is why Moscow's winters are much colder than London's. Who acts: Places. A sentence of the lesson «Climate zones and why they are where they are» of the geography course of Mova's primary sch
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# Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 16

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Places deep inside continents have hotter summers and colder winters than coasts at the same latitude, which is why Moscow's winters are much colder than London's.

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**Who acts:** Places · **What happens:** have, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate zones and why they are where they are» 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 (Places), 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:16
# text = Places deep inside continents have hotter summers and colder winters than coasts at the same latitude, which is why Moscow's winters are much colder than London's.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	continents	continent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
7	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
20	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
21	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **have** | present | Places inside continents |  |  |  | summer |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than London; cold *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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