--- title: The Earth travels around the Sun once a year, and its axis is not up… — The seasons and the tilt of the axis · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth travels around the Sun once a year, and its axis is not upright but tilted, always leaning the same way in space. Who acts: Earth, axis. 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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 (Earth, axis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:002-seasons-and-the-tilt.lesson:0 # text = The Earth travels around the Sun once a year, and its axis is not upright but tilted, always leaning the same way in space. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 002-seasons-and-the-tilt.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 ×1, R5-strong ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 around around ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 axis axis NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 upright upright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 tilted tilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 21 leaning lean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **travel** | present | the Earth | | | the Sun | | once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around sun=Trajectory | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Earth's axis | | | | | upright *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tilt** | participle | Earth's axis *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lean** | gerund | Earth's axis *not said here* | the same way | | space | | always *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme in space=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:002-seasons-and-the-tilt.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R5-strong ×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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/1-day-and-night/14/) - next →: [The seasons and the tilt of the axis, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/)