--- title: Near the poles the Sun can stay up for weeks in summer, while in Sin… — Day and night, shadows and sundials · tree and pragmatics description: Near the poles the Sun can stay up for weeks in summer, while in Singapore, near the equator, day and night are each about 12 hours all year. Who acts: Sun, day. 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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, 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:8 # text = Near the poles the Sun can stay up for weeks in summer, while in Singapore, near the equator, day and night are each about 12 hours 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Near near ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 near near ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 advcl _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl:unmarked 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **stay up** | can | the Sun | | | the poles | summer; week | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near pole=Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | day and night | each 12 hours | | Singapore near the equator | year | | tree rules | 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:8`. **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, 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/7/) - next →: [Day and night, shadows and sundials, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/118-day-night-shadows-sundials/)