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title: The far side of the Moon gets as much sunlight as the near side; "da… — The Moon, the planets and the stars · tree and pragmatics
description: The far side of the Moon gets as much sunlight as the near side; "dark" meant unknown, and the far side was first photographed by the Soviet Luna 3 in 1959. Who acts: far side, dark, Soviet Luna. A sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the stars» of the myths course of Mova's primary sch
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# The Moon, the planets and the stars, sentence 7

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The far side of the Moon gets as much sunlight as the near side; "dark" meant unknown, and the far side was first photographed by the Soviet Luna 3 in 1959.

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**Who acts:** far side, dark, Soviet Luna · **What happens:** get, mean, photograph · **To what, where:** much sunlight, far side, 1959

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the stars» of the myths 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 (far side, dark, Soviet Luna), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.lesson:7
# text = The far side of the Moon gets as much sunlight as the near side; "dark" meant unknown, and the far side was first photographed by the Soviet Luna 3 in 1959.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	advmod	_	_
28	photographed	photograph	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Luna	Luna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl:agent	_	_
33	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	1959	1959	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the far side of the Moon | much sunlight |  |  |  | as the near side | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sunlight=Stimulus as side=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | past | dark |  |  |  |  | unknown *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **photograph** | past · passive | the Soviet Luna | the far side |  | 1959 |  | first *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1959=Destination |

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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.

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**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:myths:014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.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): R8-pos-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/).

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