--- title: Half a year later the northern half leans away: the Sun stays low, d… — The seasons and the tilt of the axis · tree and pragmatics description: Half a year later the northern half leans away: the Sun stays low, days are short, and it is winter, while the southern half has summer. Who acts: northern half, Sun, days, southern half. A sentence of the lesson «The seasons and the tilt of the axis» of the world course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [The seasons and the tilt of the axis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/) / 2 # The seasons and the tilt of the axis, sentence 2 Half a year later the northern half leans away: the Sun stays low, days are short, and it is winter, while the southern half has summer. **Who acts:** northern half, Sun, days, southern half · **What happens:** lean away, stay, be, have · **To what, where:** winter 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 (northern half, Sun, days, southern half), 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:2 # text = Half a year later the northern half leans away: the Sun stays low, days are short, and it is winter, while the southern half has 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 3 det:predet _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 8 nsubj _ _ 8 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 14 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 16 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 29 nsubj _ _ 29 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 30 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 away** | present | the northern half | | | | | away, late *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stay** | present | the Sun | | | | | low *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | days | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | Sun | winter | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | the southern half | | | | summer | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [The seasons and the tilt of the axis, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/1/) - next →: [The seasons and the tilt of the axis, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/)