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title: Today photographs from space show the round Earth, and people have s… — The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Today photographs from space show the round Earth, and people have sailed and flown all the way around it. Who acts: photographs, people. A sentence of the lesson «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator, sentence 4

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Today photographs from space show the round Earth, and people have sailed and flown all the way around it.

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**Who acts:** photographs, people · **What happens:** show, sail, fly · **To what, where:** round Earth, way, Earth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (photographs, people), 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:4
# text = Today photographs from space show the round Earth, and people have sailed and flown all the way around 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	photographs	photograph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	flown	fly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	around	around	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | photographs from space |  | the round Earth |  | today |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent earth=Recipient |
| 2 | **sail** | present · perfect | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | participle | people *not said here* | all way |  | Earth |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent way=Theme around it=Location |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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/).

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