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title: Weather scientists count spring as March, April and May in the north… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: Weather scientists count spring as March, April and May in the north; astronomers start it at the spring equinox, about 20 March. Who acts: Weather scientists, astronomers. A sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Seasons, terms and holidays, sentence 13

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Weather scientists count spring as March, April and May in the north; astronomers start it at the spring equinox, about 20 March.

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**Who acts:** Weather scientists, astronomers · **What happens:** count, start · **To what, where:** north, spring equinox

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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 (Weather scientists, astronomers), 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:13
# text = Weather scientists count spring as March, April and May in the north; astronomers start it at the spring equinox, about 20 March.
# 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): no change
1	Weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	astronomers	astronomer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	equinox	equinox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	_
25	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **count** | present | Weather scientists |  |  | the north | march; spring |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **start** | present | astronomers | north |  | the spring equinox |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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:13`.

**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): no change. **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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