--- title: The Moon makes no light of its own: it is always half lit by the Sun… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon makes no light of its own: it is always half lit by the Sun, and as it goes round the Earth we see different amounts of that lit half, from a thin crescent to a full Moon. Who acts: Moon, Sun, 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, Sun, 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:3 # text = The Moon makes no light of its own: it is always half lit by the Sun, and as it goes round the Earth we see different amounts of that lit half, from a thin crescent to a full Moon. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 12 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 14 advmod _ _ 13 half half ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 lit lit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl:agent _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 23 round round ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 32 lit lit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 29 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 crescent crescent NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 Moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **make** | present | the Moon | no light of Moon's own | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product | | 2 | **lit** | present · passive | the Sun | Moon | | | | always, half *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go round** | present | Moon | the Earth | | | | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **see** | present | we | different amounts of that lit half | | a thin crescent | | to a full Moon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer amount=Stimulus | | 5 | **lit** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **amount** | | | that lit half | | a thin crescent | | to a full Moon | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient from=place to=obl | 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:3`. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/2/) - next →: [Day and night, and the Moon's faces, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/)