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title: But it spins so slowly that one sunrise to the next takes 176 days,… — Mercury · tree and pragmatics
description: But it spins so slowly that one sunrise to the next takes 176 days, so on Mercury you could have two birthdays between one sunrise and the next. Who acts: Sun, one sunrise, you. A sentence of the lesson «Mercury» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Mercury, sentence 2

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But it spins so slowly that one sunrise to the next takes 176 days, so on Mercury you could have two birthdays between one sunrise and the next.

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**Who acts:** Sun, one sunrise, you · **What happens:** spin, take, have · **To what, where:** two birthdays, Mercury

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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, one sunrise, you), 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:2
# text = But it spins so slowly that one sunrise to the next takes 176 days, so on Mercury you could have two birthdays between one sunrise and the next.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	_
12	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	176	176	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **spin** | present | Sun |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present | one sunrise to the next |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | could | you | two birthdays |  | Mercury |  | between one sunrise | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Patient |

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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:003-mercury.lesson:2`.

**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 ×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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