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title: When the northern half leans towards the Sun it gets summer, while t… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: When the northern half leans towards the Sun it gets summer, while the southern half leans away and gets winter. Who acts: northern half, half, southern half. A sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Seasons, terms and holidays, sentence 1

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When the northern half leans towards the Sun it gets summer, while the southern half leans away and gets winter.

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**Who acts:** northern half, half, southern half · **What happens:** lean, get, lean away · **To what, where:** summer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world 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 (northern half, half, southern half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:1
# text = When the northern half leans towards the Sun it gets summer, while the southern half leans away and gets winter.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.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	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	nsubj	_	_
5	leans	lean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	17	nsubj	_	_
17	leans	lean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **lean** | present | the northern half |  |  |  |  | towards the Sun | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | half | summer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **lean away** | present | the southern half |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | present | the southern half *not said here* |  |  |  | winter |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:1`.

**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/).

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