--- title: With patience you can balance an egg on its end on any day of the ye… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics description: With patience you can balance an egg on its end on any day of the year; the "only on the equinox" story was spread by a newspaper story in 1945. Who acts: you, newspaper story. A sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Water, deserts and the shape of the land](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/) / 20 # Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 20 With patience you can balance an egg on its end on any day of the year; the "only on the equinox" story was spread by a newspaper story in 1945. **Who acts:** you, newspaper story · **What happens:** balance, spread · **To what, where:** egg, end, equinox story, 1945 This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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 (you, newspaper story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:20 # text = With patience you can balance an egg on its end on any day of the year; the "only on the equinox" story was spread by a newspaper story in 1945. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 balance balance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 equinox equinox NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 28 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 newspaper newspaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 1945 1945 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **balance** | can | you | a egg | | | on egg's end; day | with patience | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on end=Location | | 2 | **spread** | past · passive | a newspaper story | the equinox story | | 1945 | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1945=Destination | 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:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:20`. **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. **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. 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