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title: On average, the first day with a minimum at or below freezing is Nov… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: On average, the first day with a minimum at or below freezing is November 18 and the last day is March 27. Who acts: first day, last day. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 141

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From Wikipedia, [«Washington, D.C.»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.), 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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On average, the first day with a minimum at or below freezing is November 18 and the last day is March 27.

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**Who acts:** first day, last day · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 18, average, 27

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Washington, D.C.». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first day, last day), 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:Washington,_D.C.:141
# text = On average, the first day with a minimum at or below freezing is November 18 and the last day is March 27.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	minimum	minimum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	below	below	ADP	IN	_	10	conj	_	_
13	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the first day with a minimum at freezing | 18 |  | average | november |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the last day | 27 |  |  | march |  | 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, «Washington, D.C.», 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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