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title: Weather is what the air is doing today, while climate is the average… — Weather, storms and the changing climate · tree and pragmatics
description: Weather is what the air is doing today, while climate is the average pattern of weather over about 30 years or more. Who acts: air, climate. A sentence of the lesson «Weather, storms and the changing climate» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Weather, storms and the changing climate, sentence 9

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Weather is what the air is doing today, while climate is the average pattern of weather over about 30 years or more.

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**Who acts:** air, climate · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** average pattern

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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 (air, climate), 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:9
# text = Weather is what the air is doing today, while climate is the average pattern of weather over about 30 years or more.
# 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): no change
1	Weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
8	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	over	over	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **do** | present · progressive | the air |  |  |  | today |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | climate | the average pattern |  |  | year | of weather | tree rules |

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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:023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.lesson:9`.

**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): no change. **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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