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title: The equator is an imaginary line around the Earth, halfway between t… — The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: The equator is an imaginary line around the Earth, halfway between the poles. Who acts: equator. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator, sentence 9

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The equator is an imaginary line around the Earth, halfway between the poles.

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**Who acts:** equator · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** imaginary line, 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 (equator), 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:9
# text = The equator is an imaginary line around the Earth, halfway between the poles.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the equator | a imaginary line |  | the Earth |  | between the poles | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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): 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/).

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