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title: Mercury spins very slowly, so one sunrise to the next takes about 17… — Mercury · tree and pragmatics
description: Mercury spins very slowly, so one sunrise to the next takes about 176 Earth days, two of its years. Who acts: Mercury, one sunrise. 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.
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# Mercury, sentence 8

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Mercury spins very slowly, so one sunrise to the next takes about 176 Earth days, two of its years.

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**Who acts:** Mercury, one sunrise · **What happens:** spin, take

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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 (Mercury, one sunrise), 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:8
# text = Mercury spins very slowly, so one sunrise to the next takes about 176 Earth days, two of its years.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
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	2	conj	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	176	176	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **spin** | present | Mercury |  |  |  |  | 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 |

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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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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