Day and night, and the Moon's faces, sentence 7

One spin of the Earth takes about 24 hours and makes one day and one night; long ago the Earth spun faster, and the Moon's pull slowly brakes it.

Who acts: One spin, Earth, pull, Moon · What happens: take, make, spin, brake, pull · To what, where: Earth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night, and the Moon's faces» of the physics 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 (One spin, Earth, pull, Moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 spin	nummod
2	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 takes	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Earth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spin	nmod
6	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 24	advmod
8	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 hours	nummod
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 takes	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 makes	cc
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 takes	conj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 night	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 night	nummod
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 Earth	punct
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 ago	advmod
19	ago	ago	ADV	_	21 Earth	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Earth	det
21	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 spun	nsubj
22	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 takes	parataxis
23	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 spun	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 brakes	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 brakes	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Moon	det
27	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 pull	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Moon	case
29	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 brakes	nsubj
30	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	31 brakes	advmod
31	brakes	brake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 takes	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 brakes	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 takes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	One spin of the Earth		hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	One spin of the Earth not said here		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	spin	past	the Earth			fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	brake	present	the Moon's pull	Earth		slowly property	tree rules
5	spin			the Earth			nom spin «event transitive»: of=patient
6	pull		the Moon				nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent

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, 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:physics:039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.lesson:7.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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.

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