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title: The ocean warms slowly and cools slowly, so coasts are milder than t… — Climate zones and why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics
description: The ocean warms slowly and cools slowly, so coasts are milder than the middle of a continent; mountains are colder the higher you climb; and the side of a mountain away from the wet wind stays dry. Who acts: ocean, coasts, mountains, you. A sentence of the lesson «Climate zones and why they are wher
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# Climate zones and why they are where they are, sentence 4

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The ocean warms slowly and cools slowly, so coasts are milder than the middle of a continent; mountains are colder the higher you climb; and the side of a mountain away from the wet wind stays dry.

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**Who acts:** ocean, coasts, mountains, you, side · **What happens:** warm, cool, be, climb, stay

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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 (ocean, coasts, mountains, you), 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:4
# text = The ocean warms slowly and cools slowly, so coasts are milder than the middle of a continent; mountains are colder the higher you climb; and the side of a mountain away from the wet wind stays dry.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
6	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
10	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	milder	mild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	parataxis	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	parataxis	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
40	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warm** | present | the ocean |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cool** | present | the ocean *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | coasts |  |  |  |  | than the middle of a continent; mild *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | mountains |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **climb** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stay** | present | the side of a mountain |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:4`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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