--- title: Temperature usually falls by about 6.5 degrees Celsius for every 1,0… — Climate zones and why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: Temperature usually falls by about 6.5 degrees Celsius for every 1,000 metres you climb, which is why Kilimanjaro, close to the equator, has had snow and glaciers on top, though they are shrinking fast. Who acts: Temperature, you, Kilimanjaro, snow. 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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 (Temperature, you, Kilimanjaro, snow), 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:17 # text = Temperature usually falls by about 6.5 degrees Celsius for every 1,000 metres you climb, which is why Kilimanjaro, close to the equator, has had snow and glaciers on top, though they are shrinking fast. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 6.5 6.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 Celsius Celsius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 11 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 19 Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 26 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 parataxis _ _ 28 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 glaciers glacier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 though though SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 shrinking shrink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 38 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | present | Temperature | | | | | by 6.5 degrees Celsius; for every 1,000 metres; usually *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by degree=Location | | 2 | **climb** | present | you | every 1,000 metres *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location metre=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present · perfect | Kilimanjaro | snow and glaciers | | top | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Patient | | 5 | **shrink** | present · progressive | snow | | | | | fast *property* | vn bend-45.2 «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. 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