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title: Try it with a torch and a ball in a dark room: spin the ball slowly… — Day and night · tree and pragmatics
description: Try it with a torch and a ball in a dark room: spin the ball slowly and watch a sticker on it pass from light into shadow. Who acts: you, 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 4

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Try it with a torch and a ball in a dark room: spin the ball slowly and watch a sticker on it pass from light into shadow.

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**Who acts:** you, Earth · **What happens:** try, spin, watch, pass · **To what, where:** Earth, ball, sticker, light

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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 (you, 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:4
# text = Try it with a torch and a ball in a dark room: spin the ball slowly and watch a sticker on it pass from light into shadow.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	spin	spin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sticker	sticker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | Earth |  |  |  | with a torch and a ball in a dark room | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Patient with torch=Theme |
| 2 | **spin** | infinitive |  | the ball |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | infinitive |  | a sticker |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sticker=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | infinitive | Earth |  |  | light |  | into shadow | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from light=Initial\_Location into shadow=Destination |

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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:4`.

**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, 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/).

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