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title: That is why the world has belts of climate: hot tropics around the m… — Climate zones and why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics
description: That is why the world has belts of climate: hot tropics around the middle, temperate zones with real seasons further out, and cold polar lands at the top and bottom. Who acts: That, world. A sentence of the lesson «Climate zones and why they are where they are» of the geography course of Mova's prim
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# Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 2

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That is why the world has belts of climate: hot tropics around the middle, temperate zones with real seasons further out, and cold polar lands at the top and bottom.

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**Who acts:** That, world · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** belts

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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 (That, world), 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:2
# text = That is why the world has belts of climate: hot tropics around the middle, temperate zones with real seasons further out, and cold polar lands at the top and bottom.
# 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 ×2
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tropics	tropic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	temperate	temperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	further	further	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the world | belts of climate |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Patient |

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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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**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:2`.

**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 ×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.

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

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