--- title: For part of the year the northern half leans towards the Sun: there… — The seasons and the tilt of the axis · tree and pragmatics description: For part of the year the northern half leans towards the Sun: there the Sun climbs high, days are long, and it is summer. Who acts: northern half, Sun, days. 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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 (northern half, Sun, days), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:002-seasons-and-the-tilt.lesson:1 # text = For part of the year the northern half leans towards the Sun: there the Sun climbs high, days are long, and it is summer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 002-seasons-and-the-tilt.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 7 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 8 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 9 nsubj _ _ 9 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 towards towards ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:expl|HaikuPos=PRON:EX:PronType=Dem 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound 17 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 18 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 20 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lean** | present | the northern half | | | | | for part of the year; towards the Sun | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **climb** | present | the Sun | | | there | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | days | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | Sun | summer | | | | | tree rules | 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:002-seasons-and-the-tilt.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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: [The seasons and the tilt of the axis, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/0/) - next →: [The seasons and the tilt of the axis, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/)