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title: Venus takes about 243 Earth days to spin once but only about 225 day… — Venus · tree and pragmatics
description: Venus takes about 243 Earth days to spin once but only about 225 days to orbit the Sun, so its day is longer than its year. Who acts: Venus, day. A sentence of the lesson «Venus» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Venus, sentence 11

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Venus takes about 243 Earth days to spin once but only about 225 days to orbit the Sun, so its day is longer than its year.

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**Who acts:** Venus, day · **What happens:** take, spin, orbit, be · **To what, where:** Sun

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Venus» 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 (Venus, day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:004-venus.lesson:11
# text = Venus takes about 243 Earth days to spin once but only about 225 days to orbit the Sun, so its day is longer than its year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 004-venus.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	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	243	243	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	225	225	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	orbit	orbit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **take** | present | Venus |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spin** | to-infinitive | Venus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **orbit** | to-infinitive | Venus *not said here* | the Sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | sun's day |  |  |  | year | long *property* | 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:004-venus.lesson:11`.

**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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