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title: Winter isn't cold because the Sun is far away: the Earth is actually… — Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts · tree and pragmatics
description: Winter isn't cold because the Sun is far away: the Earth is actually closest to the Sun in early January! Who acts: Winter, Sun, Earth. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 4

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Winter isn't cold because the Sun is far away: the Earth is actually closest to the Sun in early January!

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**Who acts:** Winter, Sun, Earth · **What happens:** not be, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» 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 (Winter, Sun, Earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:4
# text = Winter isn't cold because the Sun is far away: the Earth is actually closest to the Sun in early January!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.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	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advcl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **is** | present | Winter |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Sun |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the Earth |  |  |  | january | to the Sun; actually, close *property* | 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:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:4`.

**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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