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title: Weather is what happens today; climate is the usual weather of a pla… — Climate: hot summers and hot arguments · tree and pragmatics
description: Weather is what happens today; climate is the usual weather of a place over thirty years or more, so one cold day does not cancel a warming century. Who acts: Weather, climate, one cold day. A sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics course of Mova's primary sc
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# Climate: hot summers and hot arguments, sentence 10

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Weather is what happens today; climate is the usual weather of a place over thirty years or more, so one cold day does not cancel a warming century.

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**Who acts:** Weather, climate, one cold day · **What happens:** be, happen, not cancel, warm · **To what, where:** usual weather

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics 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 (Weather, climate, one cold day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:10
# text = Weather is what happens today; climate is the usual weather of a place over thirty years or more, so one cold day does not cancel a warming century.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
16	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl:unmarked
25	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	cancel	cancel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	warming	warm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **is a** | present | Weather |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  | today |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | climate | the usual weather |  |  | year | of a place | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **cancel** | present · do-support | one cold day |  |  |  | century |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **warm** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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