--- title: In the morning the Sun is in the east, so shadows point west; at mid… — Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: In the morning the Sun is in the east, so shadows point west; at midday in Britain the Sun is in the south, so shadows point north; in the evening they point east. Who acts: Sun, shadows. 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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 (Sun, shadows), 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:8 # text = In the morning the Sun is in the east, so shadows point west; at midday in Britain the Sun is in the south, so shadows point north; in the evening they point east. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 point point VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 west west ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 point point VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 30 north north ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 point point VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 37 east east ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Sun | | | the east and midday in Britain | morning | | tree rules | | 2 | **point** | present | shadows | | | | | west *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | the south | | | tree rules | | 4 | **point** | present | shadows | | | | | north *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **point** | present | shadows *= shadow* | | | | evening | east *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: 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:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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 ★★★, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/7/) - next →: [Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/)