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title: Near the equator, as in Singapore, day and night are each about 12 h… — Day and night, shadows and sundials · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the equator, as in Singapore, day and night are each about 12 hours long all year. Who acts: day. 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 19

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Near the equator, as in Singapore, day and night are each about 12 hours long all year.

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**Who acts:** day · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** equator

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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 (day), 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:19
# text = Near the equator, as in Singapore, day and night are each about 12 hours long all year.
# 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): no change
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **is** | present | day and night |  |  | the equator as Singapore | hour; year | long *property* | tree rules |

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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:19`.

**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): no change. **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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