--- title: The Moon pulls lakes too, but a lake is too small to show a tide you… — Seasons and tides · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon pulls lakes too, but a lake is too small to show a tide you can see; even the solid ground rises and falls a few centimetres each day. Who acts: Moon, lake, you, solid ground. 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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, lake, you, solid ground), 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:15 # text = The Moon pulls lakes too, but a lake is too small to show a tide you can see; even the solid ground rises and falls a few centimetres each 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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 Moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 too too ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 23 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod 24 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound 25 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 . . 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 | **pull** | present | the Moon | lakes | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | a lake | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | a lake *not said here* | a tide | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tide=Recipient | | 4 | **see** | can | you | a tide *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tide=Stimulus | | 5 | **rise** | present | the solid ground | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fall** | present | the solid ground *not said here* | a few centimetres | | | day | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient centimetre=Result | 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:15`. **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 ×5, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Seasons and tides, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/14/) - next →: [Seasons and tides, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/)