--- title: The Earth carries us round the Sun at about 100,000 kilometres an ho… — Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth carries us round the Sun at about 100,000 kilometres an hour, and the ground at the equator spins at about 1,600 kilometres an hour, but the motion is so smooth that we feel nothing. Who acts: Earth, ground, motion, we. 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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, ground, motion, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:16 # text = The Earth carries us round the Sun at about 100,000 kilometres an hour, and the ground at the equator spins at about 1,600 kilometres an hour, but the motion is so smooth that we feel nothing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 round round ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 100,000 100000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 1,600 1,600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:unmarked _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 motion motion NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 38 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 37 obj _ _ 39 . . 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 | **carry** | present | the Earth | us | | 100,000 kilometres a hour | | round the Sun | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 2 | **spin** | present | the ground at the equator | | | 1,600 kilometres a hour | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | present | the motion | | | | | smooth *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | present | we | nothing | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:16`. **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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/15/) - next →: [Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/)