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title: The Earth leans over by about 23.4 degrees, and this tilt, not our d… — The Earth as a planet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth leans over by about 23.4 degrees, and this tilt, not our distance from the Sun, makes summer and winter: in summer your half leans towards the Sun. Who acts: Earth, tilt, half. A sentence of the lesson «The Earth as a planet» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# The Earth as a planet, sentence 2

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The Earth leans over by about 23.4 degrees, and this tilt, not our distance from the Sun, makes summer and winter: in summer your half leans towards the Sun.

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**Who acts:** Earth, tilt, half · **What happens:** lean over, make, lean

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Earth as a planet» 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 (Earth, tilt, half), 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:2
# text = The Earth leans over by about 23.4 degrees, and this tilt, not our distance from the Sun, makes summer and winter: in summer your half leans towards the Sun.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leans	lean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	23.4	23.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	tilt	tilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	30	nsubj	_	_
30	leans	lean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
31	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Sun.	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
```

## 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 | **lean over** | present | the Earth |  |  |  |  | by 23.4 degrees; over *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by degree=Location |
| 2 | **make** | present | this tilt |  |  |  | summer |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **lean** | present | your half |  |  |  | summer | towards the Sun. | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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:005-the-earth-as-a-planet.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, R6-punct-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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