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title: In an eclipse of the Moon the Earth's shadow covers the Moon, and su… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics
description: In an eclipse of the Moon the Earth's shadow covers the Moon, and sunlight bent through our air turns it red, as if lit by all the Earth's sunsets at once. Who acts: shadow, sunlight, Earth. A sentence of the lesson «Day and night, and the Moon's faces» of the physics course of Mova's primary school
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# Day and night, and the Moon's faces, sentence 14

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In an eclipse of the Moon the Earth's shadow covers the Moon, and sunlight bent through our air turns it red, as if lit by all the Earth's sunsets at once.

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**Who acts:** shadow, sunlight, Earth · **What happens:** cover, bend, turn, lit, eclipse, shadow · **To what, where:** Moon, sunlight, air

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night, and the Moon's faces» of the physics 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 (shadow, sunlight, Earth), 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:14
# text = In an eclipse of the Moon the Earth's shadow covers the Moon, and sunlight bent through our air turns it red, as if lit by all the Earth's sunsets at once.
# 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 ×2
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	11	obl	_	_
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	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	sunsets	sunset	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:agent	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | **cover** | present | the Earth's shadow |  | the Moon |  |  | in a eclipse of the Moon | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent moon=Destination in eclipse=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | participle |  | sunlight *not said here* |  | our air |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Location |
| 3 | **turn** | present | sunlight | Moon |  |  |  | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **lit** | participle | sunlight *not said here* |  |  |  | sunset |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eclipse** |  |  | the Moon |  |  |  |  | nom eclipse «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **shadow** |  | the Earth |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×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.

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