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title: The Moon is about a quarter of the Earth's width and orbits about 38… — The Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moon is about a quarter of the Earth's width and orbits about 384,000 kilometres away, a distance of about 30 Earths lined up. 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 every clause.
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# The Moon, sentence 5

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The Moon is about a quarter of the Earth's width and orbits about 384,000 kilometres away, a distance of about 30 Earths lined up.

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**Who acts:** Moon · **What happens:** be, orbit, line up · **To what, where:** quarter, 384,000 kilometres, 30 Earths

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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 (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:5
# text = The Moon is about a quarter of the Earth's width and orbits about 384,000 kilometres away, a distance of about 30 Earths lined up.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	width	width	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	orbits	orbit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	384,000	384,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	Earths	earth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | the Moon | a quarter and a distance of 30 Earths |  |  |  | of the Earth's width; about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **orbit** | present | the Moon *not said here* | 384,000 kilometres |  |  |  |  | vn orbit-51.9.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **line up** | participle |  | 30 Earths *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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): R8-pos-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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