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title: The Mediterranean has hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, which… — The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mediterranean has hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, which suits olive trees, grapes and lemons, so the Sea Rat could rest in «the great olive-woods» on the hills. Who acts: Mediterranean, mild wet winters, Sea Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from C
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# The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 16

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The Mediterranean has hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, which suits olive trees, grapes and lemons, so the Sea Rat could rest in «the great olive-woods» on the hills.

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**Who acts:** Mediterranean, mild wet winters, Sea Rat · **What happens:** have, suit, rest · **To what, where:** olive trees, great olive woods

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel» 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 (Mediterranean, mild wet winters, Sea Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:16
# text = The Mediterranean has hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, which suits olive trees, grapes and lemons, so the Sea Rat could rest in «the great olive-woods» on the hills.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	suits	suit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	olive	olive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
30	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	olive	olive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
36	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
40	.	.	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 | **have** | present | the Mediterranean |  |  |  | summer |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **suit** | present | mild wet winters | olive trees and grapes and lemons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | could | the Sea Rat |  |  | the great olive woods |  | on the hills | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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