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title: Sunlight that falls at a slant spreads over more ground, so it warms… — The seasons and the tilt of the axis · tree and pragmatics
description: Sunlight that falls at a slant spreads over more ground, so it warms each piece of ground less. Who acts: Sunlight. A sentence of the lesson «The seasons and the tilt of the axis» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The seasons and the tilt of the axis, sentence 12

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Sunlight that falls at a slant spreads over more ground, so it warms each piece of ground less.

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**Who acts:** Sunlight · **What happens:** fall, spread, warm · **To what, where:** slant, more ground, piece

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The seasons and the tilt of the axis» 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 (Sunlight), 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:12
# text = Sunlight that falls at a slant spreads over more ground, so it warms each piece of ground less.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	slant	slant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **fall** | present | Sunlight |  |  | a slant |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at slant=Location |
| 2 | **spread** | present | Sunlight | more ground |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **warm** | present | sunlight | each piece of ground |  |  |  | less *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |

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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:002-seasons-and-the-tilt.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): R7-rel-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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