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title: Near the equator the Sun is high all year, so there is no snowy wint… — Seasons and tides · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the equator the Sun is high all year, so there is no snowy winter; many places there have wet and dry seasons instead. Who acts: Sun, snowy winter, many places. A sentence of the lesson «Seasons and tides» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Seasons and tides, sentence 10

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Near the equator the Sun is high all year, so there is no snowy winter; many places there have wet and dry seasons instead.

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**Who acts:** Sun, snowy winter, many places · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** equator

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Seasons and tides» of the physics 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 (Sun, snowy winter, many places), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:040-seasons-and-tides.lesson:10
# text = Near the equator the Sun is high all year, so there is no snowy winter; many places there have wet and dry seasons instead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 040-seasons-and-tides.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
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Sun |  |  | the equator | year | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | no snowy winter |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | many places |  |  |  | season | instead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:physics:040-seasons-and-tides.lesson:10`.

**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. **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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