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title: The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west everywhere on Earth,… — Directions, latitude and longitude · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west everywhere on Earth, because the Earth spins from west to east. Who acts: Sun, Earth. A sentence of the lesson «Directions, latitude and longitude» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Directions, latitude and longitude, sentence 15

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The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west everywhere on Earth, because the Earth spins from west to east.

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**Who acts:** Sun, Earth · **What happens:** rise, set, spin · **To what, where:** east, west

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Directions, latitude and longitude» of the geography 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, Earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:002-directions-latitude-and-longitude.lesson:15
# text = The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west everywhere on Earth, because the Earth spins from west to east.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 002-directions-latitude-and-longitude.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	19	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
18	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **rise** | present | the Sun |  |  | the east |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in east=Location |
| 2 | **set** | present | the Sun *not said here* |  |  | the west |  | everywhere *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in west=Destination |
| 3 | **spin** | present | the Earth |  |  | west to east |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from west=Trajectory |

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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:geography:002-directions-latitude-and-longitude.lesson:15`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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