--- title: Winter is cold because the Earth is tilted, so the light comes in lo… — Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts · tree and pragmatics description: Winter is cold because the Earth is tilted, so the light comes in low and slanted, spread thinly, and the days are short. Who acts: Winter, light, days. 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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 (Winter, light, days), 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:5 # text = Winter is cold because the Earth is tilted, so the light comes in low and slanted, spread thinly, and the days are short. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Winter Winter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 tilted tilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 in in ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 15 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 slanted slanted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 20 thinly thinly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 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 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Winter | | | | | cold *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tilt** | present · passive | | the Earth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **come in** | present | the light | | | | | low *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **spread** | participle | the light *not said here* | | | | | thinly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the days | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | 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:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts/4/) - next →: [Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts/)