--- title: The Moon spins once for each orbit of the Earth, so we always see th… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon spins once for each orbit of the Earth, so we always see the same face; its far side was first photographed by a spacecraft in 1959. 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:11 # text = The Moon spins once for each orbit of the Earth, so we always see the same face; its far side was first photographed by a spacecraft in 1959. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 orbit orbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 15 advmod _ _ 15 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 24 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 advmod _ _ 25 photographed photograph VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 spacecraft spacecraft NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1959 1959 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 Moon | | | | | for each orbit of the Earth; once *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for orbit=Beneficiary | | 2 | **see** | present | we | the same face | | | | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | | 3 | **photograph** | past · passive | | Moon's far side | | 1959 | | by a spacecraft; first *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by spacecraft=Destination | 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:11`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Day and night, and the Moon's faces, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/10/) - next →: [Day and night, and the Moon's faces, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/)