--- title: At midday the Sun is highest and your shadow is short and stubby; in… — Day and night, shadows and sundials · tree and pragmatics description: At midday the Sun is highest and your shadow is short and stubby; in the morning and evening the Sun is low and your shadow stretches out like a giant's. Who acts: Sun, shadow, your. 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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 (Sun, shadow, your), 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:4 # text = At midday the Sun is highest and your shadow is short and stubby; in the morning and evening the Sun is low and your shadow stretches out like a giant's. # 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 ×3 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 stubby stubby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 19 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 stretches stretch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is** | present | the Sun | | | midday | | high *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | your shadow | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | your shadow *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the Sun | | | | morning | low *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **stretch out** | present | your shadow | | | | | like a giant | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **shadow** | | your | | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **shadow** | | your | | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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:4`. **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 ×3. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/3/) - next →: [Day and night, shadows and sundials, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/)