--- title: The Moon shines with reflected sunlight; it is always half lit, and… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon shines with reflected sunlight; it is always half lit, and we see different amounts of the lit half as it goes round the Earth. Who acts: Moon, we. 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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 (Moon, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.lesson:10 # text = The Moon shines with reflected sunlight; it is always half lit, and we see different amounts of the lit half as it goes round the Earth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shines shine VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 reflected reflect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 11 advmod _ _ 11 half half ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 3 conj _ _ 12 lit lit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 lit lit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 18 nmod _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 26 round round ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | present | the Moon | | | | | with reflected sunlight | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sunlight=Theme | | 2 | **reflect** | participle | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Moon | | | | | always, half *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | present | we | different amounts of the lit half | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer amount=Stimulus | | 5 | **go** | present | Moon | | | the Earth | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **amount** | | | the lit half | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:physics:039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.lesson:10`. **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, R6-punct-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: [Day and night, and the Moon's faces, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/9/) - next →: [Day and night, and the Moon's faces, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/)