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title: One spin of the Earth takes about 24 hours and makes one day and one… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics
description: One spin of the Earth takes about 24 hours and makes one day and one night; long ago the Earth spun faster, and the Moon's pull slowly brakes it. Who acts: One spin, Earth, pull, Moon. A sentence of the lesson «Day and night, and the Moon's faces» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Day and night, and the Moon's faces, sentence 7

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One spin of the Earth takes about 24 hours and makes one day and one night; long ago the Earth spun faster, and the Moon's pull slowly brakes it.

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**Who acts:** One spin, Earth, pull, Moon · **What happens:** take, make, spin, brake, pull · **To what, where:** Earth

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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 (One spin, Earth, pull, Moon), 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:7
# text = One spin of the Earth takes about 24 hours and makes one day and one night; long ago the Earth spun faster, and the Moon's pull slowly brakes it.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	spin	spin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	brakes	brake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **take** | present | One spin of the Earth |  |  |  | hour |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | One spin of the Earth *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **spin** | past | the Earth |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **brake** | present | the Moon's pull | Earth |  |  |  | slowly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spin** |  |  | the Earth |  |  |  |  | nom spin «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **pull** |  | the Moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=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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**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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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/).

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