--- title: The Earth is nearest the Sun in early January, when it is winter in… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth is nearest the Sun in early January, when it is winter in Britain and summer in Australia, so distance cannot be what makes summer. Who acts: Earth, distance. 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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 (Earth, distance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:8 # text = The Earth is nearest the Sun in early January, when it is winter in Britain and summer in Australia, so distance cannot be what makes summer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 parataxis _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 23 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 nsubj _ _ 28 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Earth | | | | | the Sun in early January *obl*; near *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Earth | winter and summer | | Britain | | in Australia | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is a** | can | distance | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | | | | | summer | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material | 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:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:8`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/7/) - next →: [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/)