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title: The Earth spins around its axis once in about 24 hours. — Day and night · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth spins around its axis once in about 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 5

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The Earth spins around its axis once in about 24 hours.

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**Who acts:** Earth · **What happens:** spin · **To what, where:** axis

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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:5
# text = The Earth spins around its axis once in about 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	axis	axis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **spin** | present | the Earth |  |  | Earth's axis | hour | once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around axis=Trajectory |

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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:5`.

**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): 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/).

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