--- title: Some sky puzzles hide a famous myth: the seasons are not caused by t… — Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Some sky puzzles hide a famous myth: the seasons are not caused by the Earth coming nearer to the Sun, because we are nearest in January, in the middle of the northern winter. Who acts: sky puzzles, Earth, we. 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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 (sky puzzles, Earth, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:2 # text = Some sky puzzles hide a famous myth: the seasons are not caused by the Earth coming nearer to the Sun, because we are nearest in January, in the middle of the northern winter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.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 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 appos _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 nearer near ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 advcl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | some sky puzzles | a famous myth | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Patient | | 2 | **not** **cause** | present · passive | the Earth | the seasons | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | | 3 | **come** | gerund | the Earth *not said here* | | | | | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | we | | | | january | near *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:physics:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:2`. **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. **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: speed, space and seasons ★★★, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/1/) - next →: [Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/)