--- title: In the Northern Hemisphere one star, Polaris, the North Star, hardly… — Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky · tree and pragmatics description: In the Northern Hemisphere one star, Polaris, the North Star, hardly moves at all, because it sits almost straight above the Earth's North Pole, and all the other stars seem to circle around it. Who acts: Sun, other stars. 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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 (Sun, other stars), 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:2 # text = In the Northern Hemisphere one star, Polaris, the North Star, hardly moves at all, because it sits almost straight above the Earth's North Pole, and all the other stars seem to circle around it. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 3 Northern Northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Hemisphere hemisphere PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 8 Polaris Polaris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod 12 Star Star PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 22 almost almost ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 24 above above ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det:predet _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 circle circle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 around around ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | | the Northern Hemisphere | | one star | | at all; hardly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in star=Source at all=Trajectory | | 2 | **sit** | present | Sun | | | the Earth's North Pole | | straight *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above pole=Location | | 3 | **seem** | present | all other stars | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **circle** | to-infinitive | all other stars *not said here* | | | Sun | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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:070-the-night-sky.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/1/) - next →: [Stars, planets and constellations in t…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/)