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title: The evening constellations change through the year because the Earth… — Constellations and the night sky in winter and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: The evening constellations change through the year because the Earth moves round the Sun, so at night we face a different part of space each season; in summer Orion is up in the daytime sky, hidden by sunlight. Who acts: evening constellations, Earth, we, Orion. A sentence of the lesson «Constellati
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# Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 7

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The evening constellations change through the year because the Earth moves round the Sun, so at night we face a different part of space each season; in summer Orion is up in the daytime sky, hidden by sunlight.

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**Who acts:** evening constellations, Earth, we, Orion · **What happens:** change, move, face, be, hide · **To what, where:** Sun, different part, daytime sky

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» of the space 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 (evening constellations, Earth, we, Orion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:020-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring.lesson:7
# text = The evening constellations change through the year because the Earth moves round the Sun, so at night we face a different part of space each season; in summer Orion is up in the daytime sky, hidden by sunlight.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 020-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	constellations	constellation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	round	round	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	Orion	orion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	daytime	daytime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | the evening constellations |  |  |  | year |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **move** | present | the Earth |  |  | the Sun |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round sun=Trajectory |
| 3 | **face** | present | we | a different part of space |  |  | night; season |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | present | Orion |  |  | the daytime sky | summer | up *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hide** | participle |  | the daytime sky *not said here* |  |  |  | by sunlight | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by sunlight=Location |

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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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**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:space:020-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring.lesson:7`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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