--- title: The Earth spins once about every 24 hours, like a ball spun on a fin… — Day and night, shadows and sundials · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth spins once about every 24 hours, like a ball spun on a finger, and the half facing the Sun has day while the other half has night. Who acts: Earth, half, other half. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Earth, half, other half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:118-day-night-shadows-sundials.lesson:1 # text = The Earth spins once about every 24 hours, like a ball spun on a finger, and the half facing the Sun has day while the other half has night. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 118-day-night-shadows-sundials.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 spun spin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 24 nsubj _ _ 21 facing face VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 30 nsubj _ _ 30 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj 31 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | present | the Earth | | | | hour | like a ball; once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spin** | participle | | a ball *not said here* | | a finger | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on finger=Trajectory | | 3 | **face** | gerund | the half *not said here* | | the Sun | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Destination | | 4 | **have** | present | the half | | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | present | the other half | | | | night | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:118-day-night-shadows-sundials.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Day and night, shadows and sundials, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/0/) - next →: [Day and night, shadows and sundials, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/)