Day and night, sentence 2
As the Earth spins, every place is carried from the dark half into the light half and back again, once in 24 hours.
Who acts: Earth · What happens: spin, carry · To what, where: place, dark half
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 (Earth), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spins | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Earth | det |
| 3 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spins | nsubj |
| 4 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spins | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | aux:pass |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 half | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 half | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 half | amod |
| 13 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 carried | obl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 half | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 half | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 half | compound |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 carried | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 again | cc |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 again | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 half | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 once | punct |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 carried | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hours | case |
| 24 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 hours | nummod |
| 25 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 once | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | the Earth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | present · passive | every place | the dark half | into the light half; once property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from half=Initial_Location |
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: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): no change. 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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