Day and night, sentence 1

The Sun shines on only one half of the ball at a time: that half has day, and the other half, turned away from the Sun, has night.

Who acts: Sun, half, other half · What happens: shine, have, turn away · To what, where: one half, Sun

This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night» 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 (Sun, half, other half), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shines	nsubj
3	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 half	case
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 half	nummod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 shines	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 ball	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ball	det
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 half	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 time	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shines	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 half	det
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shines	parataxis
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 turned	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 half	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 half	amod
23	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 turned	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 half	punct
25	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shines	parataxis
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 turned	advmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 Sun	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Sun	det
29	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 turned	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 has	conj
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shines	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present	the Sun	one half of the ball	time		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on half=Location
2	have	present	that half		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	turn away	past	the other half	the Sun		away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from sun=Source
4	have	present	that half not said here		night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:world:001-day-and-night.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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