--- title: The Earth is a ball, very slightly flattened at the top and bottom;… — The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and t… · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth is a ball, very slightly flattened at the top and bottom; it looks flat to us only because it is so big and we see a tiny part of it. Who acts: Earth, it, we. 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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, it, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.lesson:0 # text = The Earth is a ball, very slightly flattened at the top and bottom; it looks flat to us only because it is so big and we see a tiny part of it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 8 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 flattened flatten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 a** | present | the Earth | a ball | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **flatten** | participle | | a ball *not said here* | | the top and bottom | | slightly *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **look** | present | it | | us | | | flat *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to we=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | Earth | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **see** | present | we | a tiny part of Earth | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus | 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:007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.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): R5-strong ×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: [Gravity, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/17/) - next →: [The shape and size of the Earth, the p…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/)