--- title: The Sun shines on only one half of the ball at a time: that half has… — Day and night · tree and pragmatics description: The Sun shines on only one half of the ball at a time: that half has day, and the other half, turned away from the Sun, has night. Who acts: Sun, half, other half. 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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 (Sun, half, other half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:001-day-and-night.lesson:1 # text = The Sun shines on only one half of the ball at a time: that half has day, and the other half, turned away from the Sun, has night. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 001-day-and-night.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shines shine VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:det|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 16 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 25 nsubj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 31 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 32 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | present | the Sun | | | one half of the ball | time | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on half=Location | | 2 | **have** | present | that half | | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn away** | past | the other half | | | the Sun | | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from sun=Source | | 4 | **have** | present | that half *not said here* | | | | night | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:world:001-day-and-night.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Day and night, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/1-day-and-night/0/) - next →: [Day and night, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/1-day-and-night/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/1-day-and-night/)