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title: Mountains and seas change the climate too: it gets colder the higher… — Climate zones · tree and pragmatics
description: Mountains and seas change the climate too: it gets colder the higher you climb, and places by the sea have milder winters and cooler summers than places far inland. Who acts: Mountains, climate, you, places. A sentence of the lesson «Climate zones» of the world course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Climate zones, sentence 3

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Mountains and seas change the climate too: it gets colder the higher you climb, and places by the sea have milder winters and cooler summers than places far inland.

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**Who acts:** Mountains, climate, you, places · **What happens:** change, get, climb, have · **To what, where:** climate

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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 (Mountains, climate, you, places), 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:3
# text = Mountains and seas change the climate too: it gets colder the higher you climb, and places by the sea have milder winters and cooler summers than places far inland.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	advcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	milder	mild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	cooler	cool	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
30	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **change** | present | Mountains and seas | the climate |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | present | climate |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **climb** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | places by the sea |  |  |  | winter |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:3`.

**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): R6-punct-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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