--- title: A high Sun puts its light on a small patch and a low Sun spreads the… — Seasons and tides · tree and pragmatics description: A high Sun puts its light on a small patch and a low Sun spreads the same light over a big patch, so a low Sun warms less. Who acts: high Sun, low Sun, Sun. 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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 (high Sun, low Sun, Sun), 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:9 # text = A high Sun puts its light on a small patch and a low Sun spreads the same light over a big patch, so a low Sun warms less. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 over over ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | present | a high Sun | Sun's light | | a small patch | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme on patch=Destination | | 2 | **spread** | present | a low Sun | the same light | | a big patch | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent light=Theme over patch=Destination | | 3 | **warm** | present | a low Sun | | | | | less *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **light** | | Sun | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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:physics:040-seasons-and-tides.lesson:9`. **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, 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: [Seasons and tides, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/8/) - next →: [Seasons and tides, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/)