--- title: The stars seem to move slowly across the sky during the night, risin… — Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky · tree and pragmatics description: The stars seem to move slowly across the sky during the night, rising in the east and setting in the west, but it is really the Earth turning, just as it makes the Sun rise and set. Who acts: stars, it, Earth, Sun. 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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 (stars, it, Earth, Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:070-the-night-sky.lesson:1 # text = The stars seem to move slowly across the sky during the night, rising in the east and setting in the west, but it is really the Earth turning, just as it makes the Sun rise and set. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 070-the-night-sky.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 across across ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 during during ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 19 setting set VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:cop 27 really really ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 just just ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=38:cc 40 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 41 . . 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 | **seem** | present | the stars | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **move** | to-infinitive | the stars *not said here* | | | the sky | night | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across sky=Trajectory | | 3 | **rise** | gerund | the stars *not said here* | | | the east | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in east=Location | | 4 | **set** | gerund | the stars *not said here* | | | the west | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in west=Destination | | 5 | **turn** | present · progressive | it | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present | Earth | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **rise** | infinitive | the Sun | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **set** | infinitive | the Sun *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:070-the-night-sky.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Stars, planets and constellations in t…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/0/) - next →: [Stars, planets and constellations in t…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/)