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title: The Earth's axis is tilted by about 23 and a half degrees. — The seasons and the tilt of the axis · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth's axis is tilted by about 23 and a half degrees. 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 6

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The Earth's axis is tilted by about 23 and a half degrees.

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**What happens:** tilt · **To what, where:** axis

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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: 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:6
# text = The Earth's axis is tilted by about 23 and a half degrees.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	axis	axis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	tilted	tilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	compound	_	_
13	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
14	.	.	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 | **tilt** | present · passive |  | the Earth's axis |  |  |  | 23 half degrees *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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. **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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