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title: Around midsummer the sky over Britain never gets fully dark, and in… — The night sky in summer and autumn, and the sout… · tree and pragmatics
description: Around midsummer the sky over Britain never gets fully dark, and in Scotland it stays light enough to read outside near midnight. Who acts: sky. A sentence of the lesson «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky, sentence 6

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Around midsummer the sky over Britain never gets fully dark, and in Scotland it stays light enough to read outside near midnight.

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**Who acts:** sky · **What happens:** not get, stay, read · **To what, where:** midsummer, Scotland

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky» 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 (sky), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.lesson:6
# text = Around midsummer the sky over Britain never gets fully dark, and in Scotland it stays light enough to read outside near midnight.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.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 ×1
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
23	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | present | the sky over Britain |  |  | midsummer |  | dark *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around midsummer=Destination |
| 2 | **stay** | present | sky |  |  | Scotland |  | light *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in scotland=Location |
| 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | sky *not said here* |  |  |  | midnight | outside *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.lesson:6`.

**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 ×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/).

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