--- title: The Earth spins towards the east, so the Sun seems to rise in the ea… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth spins towards the east, so the Sun seems to rise in the east and set in the west; careful watching proved it is the Earth that turns. Who acts: Earth, Sun. 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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), 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:5 # text = The Earth spins towards the east, so the Sun seems to rise in the east and set in the west; careful watching proved it is the Earth that turns. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 towards towards ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 nsubj _ _ 25 proved prove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . 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 | **spin** | present | the Earth | | | the east | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards east=Trajectory | | 2 | **seem** | present | the Sun | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **rise** | to-infinitive | the Sun *not said here* | | | the east | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in east=Location | | 4 | **set** | infinitive | the Sun *not said here* | | | the west | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in west=Destination | | 5 | **watch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **prove** | past | | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | Earth | the Earth | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **turn** | present | the Earth | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:physics:039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.lesson:5`. **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 ×3, 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: [Day and night, and the Moon's faces, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/4/) - next →: [Day and night, and the Moon's faces, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/)