--- title: Near the equator the seasons are wet and dry rather than hot and col… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics description: Near the equator the seasons are wet and dry rather than hot and cold; Kenya has long rains from about March to May and short rains from about October to December. Who acts: seasons, Kenya. 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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 (seasons, Kenya), 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:16 # text = Near the equator the seasons are wet and dry rather than hot and cold; Kenya has long rains from about March to May and short rains from about October to December. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Near near ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 12 cc _ _ 11 than than ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Kenya Kenya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 18 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 rains rain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 22 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 rains rain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 30 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the seasons | | | the equator | | wet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the seasons *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | the seasons *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | Kenya | long rains and short rains from October to December | | | | from March to May | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient | 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:16`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Seasons, terms and holidays, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/15/) - next →: [Seasons, terms and holidays, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/)