--- title: The Sun seems to climb up in the east and sink in the west, but it i… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics description: The Sun seems to climb up in the east and sink in the west, but it is really the Earth spinning towards the east, carrying you round like a passenger on a smooth, silent roundabout. Who acts: Sun, Earth. 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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 (Sun, Earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.lesson:0 # text = The Sun seems to climb up in the east and sink in the west, but it is really the Earth spinning towards the east, carrying you round like a passenger on a smooth, silent roundabout. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 really really ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 spinning spin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 23 towards towards ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 round round ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 passenger passenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 35 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 roundabout roundabout NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | present | the Sun | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **climb up** | to-infinitive | the Sun *not said here* | | | the east | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in east=Trajectory | | 3 | **sink** | infinitive | the Sun *not said here* | | | the west | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | Sun | the Earth | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **spin** | gerund | the Earth *not said here* | | | the east | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards east=Trajectory | | 6 | **carry** | gerund | the Earth *not said here* | you | | | | like a passenger on a smooth silent roundabout; round *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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. 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