--- title: The Earth is tilted, so when the northern half leans towards the Sun… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth is tilted, so when the northern half leans towards the Sun it has summer and the southern half has winter. Who acts: northern half, half. 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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 (northern half, 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:11 # text = The Earth is tilted, so when the northern half leans towards the Sun it has summer and the southern half has 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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 tilted tilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 9 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 10 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 11 nsubj _ _ 11 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 12 towards towards ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 17 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 17 conj _ _ 22 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 . . 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 | **tilt** | present · passive | | the Earth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **lean** | present | the northern half | | | | | towards the Sun | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | half | | | | summer | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | | | | | winter | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:11`. **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 ×4, 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: [Seasons, terms and holidays, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/10/) - next →: [Seasons, terms and holidays, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/)