--- title: The whole night sky seems to turn round one point because the Earth… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics description: The whole night sky seems to turn round one point because the Earth spins; the North Star sits almost above the North Pole and hardly moves, and sailors used it to find north. Who acts: whole night sky, Earth, North Star, sailors. 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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 (whole night sky, Earth, North Star, sailors), 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:9 # text = The whole night sky seems to turn round one point because the Earth spins; the North Star sits almost above the North Pole and hardly moves, and sailors used it to find north. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 round round ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod 18 Star Star PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 almost almost ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 above above ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 35 north north ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . 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 | **seem** | present | the whole night sky | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **turn round** | to-infinitive | the whole night sky *not said here* | one point | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **spin** | present | the Earth | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sit** | present | the North Star | | | the North Pole | | almost *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above pole=Location | | 5 | **move** | present | the North Star *not said here* | | | | | hardly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **use** | past | sailors | Earth | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | sailors *not said here* | | | | | north *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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