--- title: The Moon is a ball of grey rock about a quarter as wide as the Earth… — The Moon · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon is a ball of grey rock about a quarter as wide as the Earth, circling us about 384,000 kilometres away, the width of about 30 Earths in a row. Who acts: Moon. A sentence of the lesson «The Moon» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/6-the-moon/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [The Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/6-the-moon/) / 0 # The Moon, sentence 0 The Moon is a ball of grey rock about a quarter as wide as the Earth, circling us about 384,000 kilometres away, the width of about 30 Earths in a row. **Who acts:** Moon · **What happens:** be, circle · **To what, where:** ball, us This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon» 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 (Moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:006-the-moon.lesson:0 # text = The Moon is a ball of grey rock about a quarter as wide as the Earth, circling us about 384,000 kilometres away, the width of about 30 Earths in a row. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 006-the-moon.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:RB:Degree=Pos 14 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 circling circle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 19 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 384,000 384,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 23 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 width width NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 Earths earth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNPS:Number=Plur 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the Moon | a ball | | | | of grey rock a quarter | tree rules | | 2 | **circle** | gerund | the Moon *not said here* | us | | | | away *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Co-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:space:006-the-moon.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [The Earth as a planet, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/5-the-earth-as-a-planet/15/) - next →: [The Moon, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/6-the-moon/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/6-the-moon/)