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title: The dark patches people call seas are plains of old hardened lava, a… — The Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: The dark patches people call seas are plains of old hardened lava, and the rest is scarred with craters left by rocks from space. Who acts: people, dark patches. 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 clau
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# The Moon, sentence 2

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The dark patches people call seas are plains of old hardened lava, and the rest is scarred with craters left by rocks from space.

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**Who acts:** people, dark patches · **What happens:** call, be, harden, scar, leave · **To what, where:** seas, plains, rest, craters, space · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, dark patches), 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:2
# text = The dark patches people call seas are plains of old hardened lava, and the rest is scarred with craters left by rocks from space.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	hardened	harden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	scarred	scar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	craters	crater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
21	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:agent	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | people | seas |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sea=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the dark patches | plains |  |  |  | of old hardened lava | tree rules |
| 3 | **harden** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **scar** | present · passive |  | the rest |  |  |  | with craters | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with crater=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | participle |  | craters *not said here* |  | space |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from space=Initial\_Location |

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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:006-the-moon.lesson:2`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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