--- title: The Sun seems to rise in the east and set in the west because the Ea… — Day and night · tree and pragmatics description: The Sun seems to rise in the east and set in the west because the Earth turns from west to east, the way trees seem to run backwards when you look out of a moving train. Who acts: Sun, Earth, way trees, you. A sentence of the lesson «Day and night» of the world course of Mova's primary school with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/1-day-and-night/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Day and night](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/1-day-and-night/) / 3 # Day and night, sentence 3 The Sun seems to rise in the east and set in the west because the Earth turns from west to east, the way trees seem to run backwards when you look out of a moving train. **Who acts:** Sun, Earth, way trees, you · **What happens:** seem, rise, set, turn, run, look out · **To what, where:** east, west, moving train 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 (Sun, Earth, way trees, you), 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:3 # text = The Sun seems to rise in the east and set in the west because the Earth turns from west to east, the way trees seem to run backwards when you look out of a moving train. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 17 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 backwards backward ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 when when SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 out out ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 amod _ _ 37 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 . . 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 | **seem** | present | the Sun | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **rise** | to-infinitive | the Sun *not said here* | | | the east | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in east=Location | | 3 | **set** | infinitive | the Sun *not said here* | | | the west | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in west=Destination | | 4 | **turn** | present | the Earth | | | west to east | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from west=Trajectory | | 5 | **seem** | present | way trees | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **run** | to-infinitive | way trees *not said here* | | | | | backward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **look out** | present | you | a moving train | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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. 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