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title: Half the Earth always faces the Sun and has day while the other half… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics
description: Half the Earth always faces the Sun and has day while the other half has night. Who acts: Earth, other half. A sentence of the lesson «Day and night, and the Moon's faces» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Day and night, and the Moon's faces, sentence 6

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Half the Earth always faces the Sun and has day while the other half has night.

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**Who acts:** Earth, other half · **What happens:** face, have · **To what, where:** Sun

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night, and the Moon's faces» of the physics 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 (Earth, other half), 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:6
# text = Half the Earth always faces the Sun and has day while the other half has night.
# 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): no change
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	faces	face	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **face** | present | half Earth |  | the Sun |  |  | always *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sun=Destination |
| 2 | **have** | present | half Earth *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | the other half |  |  |  | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:physics:039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.lesson:6`.

**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): no change. **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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