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title: At an equinox day and night are about equal; at the summer solstice,… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: At an equinox day and night are about equal; at the summer solstice, about 21 June in the north, we have the longest day. Who acts: equinox day, we. A sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Seasons, terms and holidays, sentence 14

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At an equinox day and night are about equal; at the summer solstice, about 21 June in the north, we have the longest day.

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**Who acts:** equinox day, we · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** summer solstice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» 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 (equinox day, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:14
# text = At an equinox day and night are about equal; at the summer solstice, about 21 June in the north, we have the longest day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	equinox	equinox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
9	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	solstice	solstice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	_
18	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **is** | present | a equinox day and night |  |  |  |  | about, equal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | we |  |  | the summer solstice in the north | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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