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title: Snow on Christmas Day is rare in most of Britain now, and in London… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Snow on Christmas Day is rare in most of Britain now, and in London it hardly ever settles; the forecast is a far better guide than the calendar. Who acts: Snow, forecast. A sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 12

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Snow on Christmas Day is rare in most of Britain now, and in London it hardly ever settles; the forecast is a far better guide than the calendar.

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**Who acts:** Snow, forecast · **What happens:** be, settle · **To what, where:** most, London, better guide

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» 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 (Snow, forecast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:12
# text = Snow on Christmas Day is rare in most of Britain now, and in London it hardly ever settles; the forecast is a far better guide than the calendar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	settles	settle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	forecast	forecast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | Snow on Christmas Day |  |  | most of Britain |  | rare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **settle** | present | snow |  |  | London | ever | hardly *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in london=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the forecast | a better guide |  |  |  | than the calendar | tree rules |

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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:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:12`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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