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title: In the 1600s the regular eclipses of Jupiter's moons were used as a… — Jupiter's moons · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1600s the regular eclipses of Jupiter's moons were used as a clock in the sky to work out longitude, how far east or west you are, on land. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Jupiter's moons» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Jupiter's moons, sentence 16

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In the 1600s the regular eclipses of Jupiter's moons were used as a clock in the sky to work out longitude, how far east or west you are, on land.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** use, work out, be, eclipse · **To what, where:** regular eclipses, 1600s, longitude, land, moons

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jupiter's moons» of the space 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:011-jupiters-moons.lesson:16
# text = In the 1600s the regular eclipses of Jupiter's moons were used as a clock in the sky to work out longitude, how far east or west you are, on land.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 011-jupiters-moons.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1600s	1600	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Digit	12	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	eclipses	eclipse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	longitude	longitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	east	east	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
28	west	west	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | the regular eclipses of Jupiter's moons |  | the 1600s |  | as a clock in the sky | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as clock=Attribute |
| 2 | **work out** | to-infinitive |  | longitude |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longitude=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  | land |  | east *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eclipse** |  |  | Jupiter's moons |  |  |  |  | nom eclipse «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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:space:011-jupiters-moons.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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