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title: A Mediterranean climate has hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters,… — Climate zones and why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics
description: A Mediterranean climate has hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, and it is found not only around the Mediterranean but also in California, central Chile, South Africa's Cape and south-western Australia, and olives, which need hot, dry summers and mild winters, grow well in it. Who acts: Mediterra
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# Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 18

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A Mediterranean climate has hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, and it is found not only around the Mediterranean but also in California, central Chile, South Africa's Cape and south-western Australia, and olives, which need hot, dry summers and mild winters, grow well in it.

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**Who acts:** Mediterranean climate, olives · **What happens:** have, find, need, grow · **To what, where:** climate, Mediterranean

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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 (Mediterranean climate, olives), 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:18
# text = A Mediterranean climate has hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, and it is found not only around the Mediterranean but also in California, central Chile, South Africa's Cape and south-western Australia, and olives, which need hot, dry summers and mild winters, grow well in it.
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Chile	Chile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:compound
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	south	south	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	_
39	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
56	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	55	advmod	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | a Mediterranean climate |  |  |  | summer |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | climate |  | the Mediterranean but California and central Chile and South Africa's Cape and western Australia and olives |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **need** | present | olives |  |  |  | summer |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **grow** | present |  |  |  | climate |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.

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