--- title: "Up with the larks" means up very early, a "night owl" stays up late… — Day and night, shadows and sundials · tree and pragmatics description: "Up with the larks" means up very early, a "night owl" stays up late, and in Australia "sparrow's" means very early, at first light. Who acts: night owl, sparrow. 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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 (night owl, sparrow), 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:21 # text = "Up with the larks" means up very early, a "night owl" stays up late, and in Australia "sparrow's" means very early, at first light. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Up up ADP RP _ 7 advmod _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 larks lark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 sparrow sparrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 amod _ _ 34 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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 | **mean up** | present | a night owl *not said here* | | | | | early *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stay up** | present | a night owl | | | | | late *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | sparrow | early | | | | at first light; in Australia | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot early=Theme in australia=Attribute | 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:21`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4. **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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/20/) - next →: [The Moon's month and the year round th…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/)