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title: Australia and New Zealand are in the Southern Hemisphere, so their s… — The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: Australia and New Zealand are in the Southern Hemisphere, so their seasons are upside down: when the north half of the Earth is tilted towards the Sun in July, the south half is tilted away, so July is winter in Melbourne and Christmas comes in the summer, often at the beach. Who acts: Australia, se
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# The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, sentence 5

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Australia and New Zealand are in the Southern Hemisphere, so their seasons are upside down: when the north half of the Earth is tilted towards the Sun in July, the south half is tilted away, so July is winter in Melbourne and Christmas comes in the summer, often at the beach.

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**Who acts:** Australia, seasons, July, Christmas · **What happens:** be, tilt, tilt away, come · **To what, where:** Southern Hemisphere, upside, north half, south half, winter, Melbourne

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» 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 (Australia, seasons, July, Christmas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.lesson:5
# text = Australia and New Zealand are in the Southern Hemisphere, so their seasons are upside down: when the north half of the Earth is tilted towards the Sun in July, the south half is tilted away, so July is winter in Melbourne and Christmas comes in the summer, often at the beach.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	4	flat	_	_
4	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	tilted	tilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
27	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	south	south	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	tilted	tilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
41	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advcl
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	often	often	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Australia and New Zealand |  |  | the Southern Hemisphere and upside |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Hemisphere's seasons | upside |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tilt** | present · passive |  | the north half of the Earth |  |  | july | towards the Sun | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **tilt away** | present · passive |  | the south half |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | July | winter |  | Melbourne |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | present | Christmas |  |  | the beach | summer |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at beach=Location |

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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:045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.lesson:5`.

**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, 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/).

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