--- title: It races round the Sun in just 88 days, which is why it is named aft… — Mercury · tree and pragmatics description: It races round the Sun in just 88 days, which is why it is named after the fast Roman messenger god. Who acts: Sun. A sentence of the lesson «Mercury» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [Mercury](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/) / 1 # Mercury, sentence 1 It races round the Sun in just 88 days, which is why it is named after the fast Roman messenger god. **Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** race, be, name · **To what, where:** Sun This is a sentence of the lesson «Mercury» 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 (Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:003-mercury.lesson:1 # text = It races round the Sun in just 88 days, which is why it is named after the fast Roman messenger god. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 003-mercury.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 ×4 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 races race VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 round round ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 88 88 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 acl:relcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 19 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod 20 Roman Roman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 messenger messenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 22 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:appos 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **race** | present | Sun | | | the Sun | day | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round sun=Trajectory | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **name** | present · passive | | Sun | | | | the fast messenger god *obl* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:space:003-mercury.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×4. **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: [Mercury, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/0/) - next →: [Mercury, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/)