--- title: The Earth is tilted, so as it travels round the Sun each year, first… — Seasons and tides · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth is tilted, so as it travels round the Sun each year, first one half and then the other leans towards the Sun; the half that leans in gets high, direct sunshine and long days, and that is summer. Who acts: Earth, first one half, half, that. 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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, first one half, half, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:040-seasons-and-tides.lesson:0 # text = The Earth is tilted, so as it travels round the Sun each year, first one half and then the other leans towards the Sun; the half that leans in gets high, direct sunshine and long days, and that is summer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 040-seasons-and-tides.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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 tilted tilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 round round ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 amod _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 23 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 towards towards ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 23 conj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 in in ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 34 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 direct direct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:conj 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tilt** | present · passive | | the Earth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **travel** | present | Earth | | | the Sun | year | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round sun=Trajectory | | 3 | **lean** | present | first one half | | | | then | towards the Sun | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lean in** | present | the half | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | present | the half *not said here* | high direct sunshine and long days and summer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunshine=Stimulus | | 6 | **is a** | present | that | summer | | | | | tree rules | 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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