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title: The sun sets much earlier in winter than in summer, so «home by dusk… — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun sets much earlier in winter than in summer, so «home by dusk» (home by the time it gets dark) changes with the seasons. Who acts: sun, ». A sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Clocks, calendars and planning the day, sentence 14

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The sun sets much earlier in winter than in summer, so «home by dusk» (home by the time it gets dark) changes with the seasons.

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**Who acts:** sun, » · **What happens:** set, get, change · **To what, where:** time

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, »), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson:14
# text = The sun sets much earlier in winter than in summer, so «home by dusk» (home by the time it gets dark) changes with the seasons.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
13	«	«	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	fixed	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound
17	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
19	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | present | sun | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus |
| 3 | **change** | present | » by the time and home |  |  |  | season | dark *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson:14`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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