--- title: In an eclipse of the Sun the Moon passes exactly between the Sun and… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics description: In an eclipse of the Sun the Moon passes exactly between the Sun and the Earth; the Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon but also about 400 times further away, so they look the same size. Who acts: Moon, Sun, sailors. 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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, Sun, sailors), 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:12 # text = In an eclipse of the Sun the Moon passes exactly between the Sun and the Earth; the Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon but also about 400 times further away, so they look the same size. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 eclipse eclipse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 between between ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 wider wide ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 25 than than ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 also also ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 further further ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 24 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | present | the Moon | | | a eclipse of the Sun | | between the Sun and the Earth; exactly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in eclipse=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | the Sun | | | | time | than the Moon; wide *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | present | sailors *= sailor* | the same size | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme size=Attribute | | 4 | **eclipse** | | | the Sun | | | | | nom eclipse «event 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:12`. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/11/) - next →: [Day and night, and the Moon's faces, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/)