--- title: Because the Earth is tilted, places far from the equator have long s… — Day and night, shadows and sundials · tree and pragmatics description: Because the Earth is tilted, places far from the equator have long summer days and short winter days: in London the Sun sets at about 9:20 pm in late June and about 3:50 pm in late December. Who acts: places, Sun. 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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 (places, 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:7 # text = Because the Earth is tilted, places far from the equator have long summer days and short winter days: in London the Sun sets at about 9:20 pm in late June and about 3:50 pm in late December. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 tilted tilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 8 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 12 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 9:20 9:20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 29 pm p.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:unmarked _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 about about ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 3:50 3:50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 conj _ _ 36 pm p.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:unmarked _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tilt** | present · passive | | the Earth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | places | | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **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 | 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:7`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Day and night, shadows and sundials, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/6/) - next →: [Day and night, shadows and sundials, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/)