--- title: Seasons come from the Earth's tilt: in summer your half leans toward… — Earth from space · tree and pragmatics description: Seasons come from the Earth's tilt: in summer your half leans towards the Sun, so sunlight hits more directly and days are longer; the Earth is closest to the Sun in early January. Who acts: Seasons, half, sunlight, days. A sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» of the myths course of Mova's prim --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Earth from space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/) / 10 # Earth from space, sentence 10 Seasons come from the Earth's tilt: in summer your half leans towards the Sun, so sunlight hits more directly and days are longer; the Earth is closest to the Sun in early January. **Who acts:** Seasons, half, sunlight, days, Earth · **What happens:** come, lean, hit, be, tilt · **To what, where:** tilt This is a sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» of the myths 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 (Seasons, half, sunlight, days), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:013-earth-from-space.lesson:10 # text = Seasons come from the Earth's tilt: in summer your half leans towards the Sun, so sunlight hits more directly and days are longer; the Earth is closest to the Sun in early January. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 013-earth-from-space.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 Seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 tilt tilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 13 nsubj _ _ 13 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 towards towards ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hits hit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 directly directly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 closest close ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 parataxis _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Seasons | | | the Earth's tilt | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tilt=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **lean** | present | your half | | | | summer | towards the Sun | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hit** | present | sunlight | | | | | directly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | days | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | the Earth | | | | | to the Sun in early January; close *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **tilt** | | the Earth | | | | | | nom tilt «event intransitive»: 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. 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