--- title: It spins exactly once each time it goes round us, like a dancer who… — The Moon · tree and pragmatics description: It spins exactly once each time it goes round us, like a dancer who keeps facing her partner, so we always see the same face. Who acts: Moon, dancer, we. A sentence of the lesson «The Moon» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/6-the-moon/1/) [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/) / 1 # The Moon, sentence 1 It spins exactly once each time it goes round us, like a dancer who keeps facing her partner, so we always see the same face. **Who acts:** Moon, dancer, we · **What happens:** spin, go, keep, face, see · **To what, where:** partner, same face 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, dancer, we), 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:1 # text = It spins exactly once each time it goes round us, like a dancer who keeps facing her partner, so we always see the same face. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 5 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 round round ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 10 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dancer dancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 facing face VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 xcomp _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 24 advmod _ _ 24 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **spin** | present | Moon | | | | | like a dancer; once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | present | Moon | | | | time | round us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round we=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **keep** | present | a dancer | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **face** | gerund | a dancer *not said here* | her partner | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme partner=Destination | | 5 | **see** | present | we | the same face | | | | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | 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:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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: [The Moon, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/6-the-moon/0/) - next →: [The Moon, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/6-the-moon/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/6-the-moon/)