--- title: It is a myth that the far side of the Moon is always dark: "dark" on… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics description: It is a myth that the far side of the Moon is always dark: "dark" once meant unknown, and at new Moon the far side is in full sunshine. Who acts: far side. 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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 (far side), 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:16 # text = It is a myth that the far side of the Moon is always dark: "dark" once meant unknown, and at new Moon the far side is in full sunshine. # 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 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 14 advmod _ _ 14 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 acl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 20 advmod _ _ 20 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 21 unknown unknown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the far side of the Moon | a myth *not said here* | | | | always, dark *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | participle | | | | | | once, unknown *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the far side | | | full sunshine | | at new Moon | tree rules | 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:16`. **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. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/15/) - next →: [Seasons and tides, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/)