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title: The side of the Earth facing the Sun has day, and the side facing aw… — Day and night, shadows and sundials · tree and pragmatics
description: The side of the Earth facing the Sun has day, and the side facing away has night. Who acts: Earth, side. A sentence of the lesson «Day and night, shadows and sundials» 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, shadows and sundials, sentence 11

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The side of the Earth facing the Sun has day, and the side facing away has night.

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**Who acts:** Earth, side · **What happens:** face, have, face away · **To what, where:** Sun

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night, shadows and sundials» 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, side), 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:11
# text = The side of the Earth facing the Sun has day, and the side facing away 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **face** | gerund | the Earth *not said here* |  | the Sun |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Destination |
| 2 | **have** | present | the side of the Earth |  |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **face away** | gerund | the side *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | the side |  |  |  | night |  | 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:118-day-night-shadows-sundials.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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