--- title: The Moon's gravity pulls the oceans into a bulge on the near side an… — Seasons and tides · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon's gravity pulls the oceans into a bulge on the near side and another on the far side, and each place passes through both as the Earth spins, giving two high tides a day. Who acts: gravity, place, Earth. 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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 (gravity, place, Earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:040-seasons-and-tides.lesson:11 # text = The Moon's gravity pulls the oceans into a bulge on the near side and another on the far side, and each place passes through both as the Earth spins, giving two high tides a day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 040-seasons-and-tides.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 oceans ocean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bulge bulge NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 near near ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 through through ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 25 obl _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 35 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 tides tide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:unmarked _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | present | the Moon's gravity | the oceans | | a bulge on the near side and another far side | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme | | 2 | **pass** | present | each place | | | both | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through both=Location | | 3 | **spin** | present | the Earth | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | gerund | each place *not said here* | two high tides a day | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Theme | 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:040-seasons-and-tides.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): no change. **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: [Seasons and tides, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/10/) - next →: [Seasons and tides, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/)