--- title: In the morning and evening the Sun is low and shadows are long; arou… — Mirrors, shadows and colours · tree and pragmatics description: In the morning and evening the Sun is low and shadows are long; around midday it is highest and shadows are shortest. Who acts: Sun, shadows. 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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, shadows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.lesson:5 # text = In the morning and evening the Sun is low and shadows are long; around midday it is highest and shadows are shortest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 084-mirrors-shadows-colours.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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 around around ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 shortest short ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Sun | | | | morning | low *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | shadows | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | Sun | | | midday | | high *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | shadows | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | 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:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.lesson:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [Mirrors, shadows and colours, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/4/) - next →: [Mirrors, shadows and colours, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/)