--- title: The Earth goes round the Sun once a year and spins once a day, which… — Earth from space · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth goes round the Sun once a year and spins once a day, which makes the Sun seem to move across the sky; Copernicus and Galileo argued for this centuries ago. Who acts: Earth, Sun, Copernicus. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Earth, Sun, Copernicus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:013-earth-from-space.lesson:15 # text = The Earth goes round the Sun once a year and spins once a day, which makes the Sun seem to move across the sky; Copernicus and Galileo argued for this centuries ago. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 013-earth-from-space.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 round round ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 11 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 across across ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 Copernicus Copernicus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 Galileo Galileo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 argued argue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 ago ago ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | the Earth | | | the Sun | | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round sun=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **spin** | present | the Earth *not said here* | | | | | once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **seem** | present | the Sun | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **move** | to-infinitive | the Sun *not said here* | | | the sky | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across sky=Trajectory | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | past | Copernicus and Galileo | | | | | ago *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:myths:013-earth-from-space.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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Earth from space, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/14/) - next →: [Earth from space, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/)