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title: The seasons come from the tilt of the Earth's axis, not from the Ear… — Climate zones · tree and pragmatics
description: The seasons come from the tilt of the Earth's axis, not from the Earth being nearer to or farther from the Sun. Who acts: seasons, axis. A sentence of the lesson «Climate zones» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Climate zones, sentence 14

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The seasons come from the tilt of the Earth's axis, not from the Earth being nearer to or farther from the Sun.

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**Who acts:** seasons, axis · **What happens:** come, be, tilt · **To what, where:** tilt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate zones» 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 (seasons, axis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:016-climate-zones.lesson:14
# text = The seasons come from the tilt of the Earth's axis, not from the Earth being nearer to or farther from the Sun.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 016-climate-zones.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tilt	tilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	axis	axis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Sun.	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
```

## 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 | **come** | present | the seasons |  |  | the tilt of the Earth's axis and the Earth |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tilt=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tilt** |  | the Earth's axis |  |  |  |  |  | nom tilt «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:016-climate-zones.lesson:14`.

**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): R8-pos-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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