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title: On Mercury one sunrise to the next takes about 176 Earth days, which… — Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: On Mercury one sunrise to the next takes about 176 Earth days, which is two of its 88-day years. Who acts: one sunrise, 176 Earth days. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★, sentence 9

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On Mercury one sunrise to the next takes about 176 Earth days, which is two of its 88-day years.

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**Who acts:** one sunrise, 176 Earth days · **What happens:** take, be · **To what, where:** Mercury, two

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» 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 (one sunrise, 176 Earth days), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:031-olympiad-planet-puzzles.lesson:9
# text = On Mercury one sunrise to the next takes about 176 Earth days, which is two of its 88-day years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 031-olympiad-planet-puzzles.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod
8	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	176	176	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	88	88	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **take** | present | one sunrise  the next |  |  | Mercury | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on mercury=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 176 Earth days | two |  |  | year |  | tree rules |

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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:031-olympiad-planet-puzzles.lesson:9`.

**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 ×2, 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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