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title: As the Earth spins, every place is carried from the dark half into t… — Day and night · tree and pragmatics
description: As the Earth spins, every place is carried from the dark half into the light half and back again, once in 24 hours. Who acts: Earth. A sentence of the lesson «Day and night» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Day and night, sentence 2

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As the Earth spins, every place is carried from the dark half into the light half and back again, once in 24 hours.

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**Who acts:** Earth · **What happens:** spin, carry · **To what, where:** place, dark half

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night» of the world 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), 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:2
# text = As the Earth spins, every place is carried from the dark half into the light half and back again, once in 24 hours.
# 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): no change
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	obl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | present | the Earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | present · passive |  | every place |  | the dark half |  | into the light half; once *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from half=Initial\_Location |

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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:world:001-day-and-night.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): no change. **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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