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title: Transition can move sharply between months; September sometimes sees… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Transition can move sharply between months; September sometimes sees temperatures in excess of 30°C, while October can see temperatures below freezing, and November temperatures below -10°C. Who acts: Transition, September, October, November temperatures. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its 
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# Ottawa, sentence 199

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From Wikipedia, [«Ottawa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa), 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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Transition can move sharply between months; September sometimes sees temperatures in excess of 30°C, while October can see temperatures below freezing, and November temperatures below -10°C.

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**Who acts:** Transition, September, October, November temperatures · **What happens:** move, see, c. · **To what, where:** temperatures, excess, freezing

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ottawa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Transition, September, October, November temperatures), 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:Ottawa:199
# text = Transition can move sharply between months; September sometimes sees temperatures in excess of 30°C, while October can see temperatures below freezing, and November temperatures below -10°C.
1	Transition	transition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	excess	excess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
23	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	below	below	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
30	below	below	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	C.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | can | Transition |  |  |  | month | sharply *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present | September | temperatures |  | excess of 30 and ° C |  | sometimes *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer temperature=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | can | October | temperatures |  | freezing |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer temperature=Stimulus |
| 4 | **c.** |  | November temperatures below 10 |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Ottawa», 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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