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title: In London the Sun sets at about 9:20 pm in late June and about 3:50… — Day and night, shadows and sundials · tree and pragmatics
description: In London the Sun sets at about 9:20 pm in late June and about 3:50 pm in late December, about 5 and a half hours earlier. Who acts: Sun. 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 c
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# Day and night, shadows and sundials, sentence 17

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In London the Sun sets at about 9:20 pm in late June and about 3:50 pm in late December, about 5 and a half hours earlier.

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**Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** set · **To what, where:** London

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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 (Sun), 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:17
# text = In London the Sun sets at about 9:20 pm in late June and about 3:50 pm in late December, about 5 and a half hours earlier.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nsubj
5	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	9:20	9:20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
9	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
15	3:50	3:50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
16	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	22	conj	_	_
26	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **set** | present | the Sun |  |  | London | december; june | at 9:20  pm | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in london=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:118-day-night-shadows-sundials.lesson:17`.

**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 ×2, 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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