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title: Real people of those centuries lived through colder winters, failed… — Weather, storms and the changing climate · tree and pragmatics
description: Real people of those centuries lived through colder winters, failed harvests and hurricanes that sank many Spanish treasure ships. Who acts: Real people, hurricanes. A sentence of the lesson «Weather, storms and the changing climate» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Weather, storms and the changing climate, sentence 8

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Real people of those centuries lived through colder winters, failed harvests and hurricanes that sank many Spanish treasure ships.

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**Who acts:** Real people, hurricanes · **What happens:** live, fail, sink · **To what, where:** many Spanish treasure ships

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather, storms and the changing climate» 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 (Real people, hurricanes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.lesson:8
# text = Real people of those centuries lived through colder winters, failed harvests and hurricanes that sank many Spanish treasure ships.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
11	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	harvests	harvest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
14	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **live** | past | Real people of that centuries |  |  |  | winter |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sink** | past | hurricanes | many Spanish treasure ships |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=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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**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 ×1, R6-punct-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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