--- title: The coldest month on record is January 1941 and also January 1947 wi… — Oslo · tree and pragmatics description: The coldest month on record is January 1941 and also January 1947 with mean -12.9 °C and average daily low -16.7 °C. The average date for the last overnight freeze (low below 0 °C) in spring is 23 April and average date for first freeze in autumn is 17 October giving a frost-free season of 176 days --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Oslo/146/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Oslo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Oslo/) / 146 # Oslo, sentence 146 From Wikipedia, [«Oslo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo), 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. The coldest month on record is January 1941 and also January 1947 with mean -12.9 °C and average daily low -16.7 °C. The average date for the last overnight freeze (low below 0 °C) in spring is 23 April and average date for first freeze in autumn is 17 October giving a frost-free season of 176 days (1981–2010 average for Blindern). **Who acts:** coldest month, 16.7, January, April, 17 October · **What happens:** be, date, give · **To what, where:** January, 23, 17 October This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Oslo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coldest month, 16.7, January, April), 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:Oslo:146 # text = The coldest month on record is January 1941 and also January 1947 with mean -12.9 °C and average daily low -16.7 °C. The average date for the last overnight freeze (low below 0 °C) in spring is 23 April and average date for first freeze in autumn is 17 October giving a frost-free season of 176 days (1981–2010 average for Blindern). 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 coldest cold ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 8 1941 1941 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 flat _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 also also ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 1947 1947 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 conj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 12.9 12.9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nmod _ _ 17 ° ° SYM SYM _ 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:unmarked _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 20 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 21 daily daily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 22 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 16.7 16.7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 29 nsubj _ _ 25 ° ° SYM SYM _ 26 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 C. C. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:unmarked _ _ 27 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 overnight overnight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 freeze freeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 37 below below ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 0 0 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 appos _ _ 39 ° ° SYM SYM _ 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 C c NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 23 23 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 46 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 50 for for ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 52 amod _ _ 52 freeze freeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ _ 55 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 56 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 57 nummod _ _ 57 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 58 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 57 acl _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 60 frost frost NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 61 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 60 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 63 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 64 of of ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 176 176 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 66 nummod _ _ 66 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 nmod _ _ 67 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 68 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 1981 1981 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 66 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 69 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 70 case _ SpaceAfter=No 70 2010 2010 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 68 nmod _ _ 71 average average NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 appos _ _ 72 for for ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 73 Blindern Blindern PROPN NNP Number=Sing 71 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 74 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 71 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the coldest month on record | January | | | | with mean 12.9 ° C and the average daily low average date | tree rules | | 2 | **date** | | 16.7 ° C. | | | | | for the last overnight freeze in spring | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | January | 23 | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | April and average date for first freeze in autumn | 17 October | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | gerund | 17 October *not said here* | | | | season | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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, «Oslo», 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 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Oslo/145/) - next →: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Oslo/147/) - ↑ back to [Oslo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Oslo/)