--- title: It spins once a day, which gives us day and night, and it races roun… — The Earth as a planet · tree and pragmatics description: It spins once a day, which gives us day and night, and it races round the Sun once a year at about 30 kilometres every second, though we never feel it, just as you do not feel a smooth train. Who acts: life, day, we, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, day, we, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:005-the-earth-as-a-planet.lesson:1 # text = It spins once a day, which gives us day and night, and it races round the Sun once a year at about 30 kilometres every second, though we never feel it, just as you do not feel a smooth train. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 005-the-earth-as-a-planet.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 races race VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 round round ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nmod 20 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 27 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 26 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl:unmarked 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 though though SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 just just ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 . . 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 | **spin** | present | life | | | | | once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give** | present | a day | | us | | day | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 3 | **race** | present | life | | | 30 kilometres every second | | round the Sun; once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round sun=Trajectory | | 4 | **not** **feel** | present | we | life | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | you | a smooth train | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=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:005-the-earth-as-a-planet.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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [The Earth as a planet, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/5-the-earth-as-a-planet/0/) - next →: [The Earth as a planet, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/5-the-earth-as-a-planet/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/5-the-earth-as-a-planet/)