--- title: There are 2 seasons: a warm humid summer from November to April, wit… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics description: There are 2 seasons: a warm humid summer from November to April, with a mean temperature of 24.7 C and a relatively cool dry winter from June to September, with a mean temperature of 20.4 C. The temperature difference between the seasons is only 4.3 °C (7.7 °F). 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The temperature difference between the seasons is only 4.3 °C (7.7 °F). **Who acts:** 2 seasons, temperature difference · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 4.3 This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mauritius». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (2 seasons, temperature difference), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Mauritius:346 # text = There are 2 seasons: a warm humid summer from November to April, with a mean temperature of 24.7 C and a relatively cool dry winter from June to September, with a mean temperature of 20.4 C. The temperature difference between the seasons is only 4.3 °C (7.7 °F). 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 humid humid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 24.7 24.7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 21 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 relatively relatively ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 20.4 20.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 C. C. PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 40 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 43 between between ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 only only ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 4.3 4.3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nmod _ _ 49 ° ° SYM SYM _ 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 50 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod:unmarked _ _ 51 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 7.7 7.7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 appos _ _ 53 ° ° SYM SYM _ 54 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 54 F F PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | 2 seasons a warm humid summer from November to April and a mean temperature of 24.7 C and a cool dry winter from June to September and a mean temperature of 20.4 C. | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | the temperature difference between the seasons | 4.3 | | | | ° C *nmod:unmarked*; 7.7 ° F *appos* | tree rules | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Mauritius», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 345](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mauritius/345/) - next →: [sentence 347](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mauritius/347/) - ↑ back to [Mauritius](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mauritius/)