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title: The two halves of the Earth have opposite seasons, so Christmas come… — Seasons and tides · tree and pragmatics
description: The two halves of the Earth have opposite seasons, so Christmas comes in summer in Australia. Who acts: two halves, Christmas. A sentence of the lesson «Seasons and tides» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Seasons and tides, sentence 7

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The two halves of the Earth have opposite seasons, so Christmas comes in summer in Australia.

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**Who acts:** two halves, Christmas · **What happens:** have, come · **To what, where:** Australia

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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 (two halves, Christmas), 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:7
# text = The two halves of the Earth have opposite seasons, so Christmas comes in summer in Australia.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **have** | present | the two halves of the Earth |  |  |  | season |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | Christmas |  |  | Australia | summer |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location |

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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:7`.

**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, 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/).

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