--- title: The equator splits the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphe… — The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and t… · tree and pragmatics description: The equator splits the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres; the equator is about 40 thousand kilometres long, so a car driving day and night at 100 kilometres an hour would need more than 16 days to go around. Who acts: equator, car. 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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 (equator, car), 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:2 # text = The equator splits the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres; the equator is about 40 thousand kilometres long, so a car driving day and night at 100 kilometres an hour would need more than 16 days to go around. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 Northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 Hemispheres hemisphere NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 compound _ _ 18 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 20 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 25 driving drive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:unmarked _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 36 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 38 advmod _ _ 37 than than ADP IN _ 36 fixed _ _ 38 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 42 around around ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **split** | present | the equator | the Earth | | | | into the Northern Hemispheres *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent earth=Patient into hemisphere=Result | | 2 | **is a** | present | the equator | thousand kilometres | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **drive** | gerund | a car *not said here* | | | 100 kilometres a hour | day | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **need** | would | a car | | | | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **go around** | to-infinitive | a car *not said here* | | | | | around *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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: [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/) - next →: [The shape and size of the Earth, the p…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/)