--- title: Earth's axis is tilted, so for half the year the north leans towards… — Climate zones and why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: Earth's axis is tilted, so for half the year the north leans towards the Sun and has summer while the south has winter, and then they swap. Who acts: north, south, mountains. 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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 (north, south, mountains), 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:5 # text = Earth's axis is tilted, so for half the year the north leans towards the Sun and has summer while the south has winter, and then they swap. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 axis axis NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 tilted tilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 7 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 11 det:predet _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 towards towards ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 swap swap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tilt** | present · passive | | Earth's axis | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **lean** | present | the north | | | | year | towards the Sun | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | the north *not said here* | | | | summer | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | the south | | | | winter | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **swap** | present | mountains *= mountain* | | | | then | | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:021-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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