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title: The city lies in USDA Hardiness zone 7b, and its annual average prec… — Ankara · tree and pragmatics
description: The city lies in USDA Hardiness zone 7b, and its annual average precipitation is fairly low at 414 mm, nevertheless precipitation can be observed throughout the year. Who acts: city, annual average precipitation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ankara» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ankara, sentence 148

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From Wikipedia, [«Ankara»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The city lies in USDA Hardiness zone 7b, and its annual average precipitation is fairly low at 414 mm, nevertheless precipitation can be observed throughout the year.

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**Who acts:** city, annual average precipitation · **What happens:** lie, be, observe · **To what, where:** USDA zone 7b, 414 mm, precipitation

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ankara». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, annual average precipitation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Ankara:148
# text = The city lies in USDA Hardiness zone 7b, and its annual average precipitation is fairly low at 414 mm, nevertheless precipitation can be observed throughout the year.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	USDA	USDA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	Hardiness	hardiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	7b	7b	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	precipitation	precipitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	414	414	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	precipitation	precipitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
27	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | the city |  |  | USDA zone 7b |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in 7b=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | city's annual average precipitation |  |  | 414 mm |  | fairly, low *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **observe** | can · passive |  | precipitation |  |  | year | nevertheless *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Ankara», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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