--- title: The UK has a mild, wet climate: warm Atlantic water and westerly win… — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: The UK has a mild, wet climate: warm Atlantic water and westerly winds make its winters warmer than places such as Labrador at the same latitude, and the west is wetter than the east because wet Atlantic winds drop their rain on the western hills first. 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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 (UK, west, wet Atlantic winds, winds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:14 # text = The UK has a mild, wet climate: warm Atlantic water and westerly winds make its winters warmer than places such as Labrador at the same latitude, and the west is wetter than the east because wet Atlantic winds drop their rain on the western hills first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 Atlantic Atlantic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 westerly westerly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 16 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 winters winter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 24 case _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 Labrador labrador PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 latitude latitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 wetter wet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 conj _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 because because SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 Atlantic Atlantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 41 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 49 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 42 advmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the UK | a mild wet climate warm Atlantic water and westerly winds | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | the UK *not said here* | | | | | warm *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **is** | present | the west | | | | | than the east; wet *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **drop** | present | wet Atlantic winds | winds's rain | | the western hills | | first *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rain=Theme on hill=Destination | | 5 | **rain** | | winds *= wind* | | | | | | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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