--- title: Near the equator it is warm all year, so seasons are about rain, not… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics description: Near the equator it is warm all year, so seasons are about rain, not cold: in Kenya there are the "long rains" (about March to May) and the "short rains" (about October to December), and India has the monsoon, a big rainy season from about June to September. Who acts: equator, India. 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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 (equator, India), 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:6 # text = Near the equator it is warm all year, so seasons are about rain, not cold: in Kenya there are the "long rains" (about March to May) and the "short rains" (about October to December), and India has the monsoon, a big rainy season from about June to September. # 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 ×5 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 6 obl _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 so so SCONJ IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Kenya Kenya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 rains rain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 29 about about ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:appos 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 37 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 rains rain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 41 about about ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:appos 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 49 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 monsoon monsoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 54 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 55 rainy rainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:conj 57 from from ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 about about ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=59:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 59 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 nmod _ _ 60 to to ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 nmod _ _ 62 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | equator | | | the equator | year | warm *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | so seasons | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | about rain | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | India | the monsoon | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monsoon=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:6`. **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 ×5. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/5/) - next →: [Seasons, terms and holidays, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/)