--- title: The Sun always lights half of the Moon, like a lamp lighting half of… — Phases, eclipses and tides · tree and pragmatics description: The Sun always lights half of the Moon, like a lamp lighting half of a ball; as the Moon goes round us we see more or less of that lit half, and these are the phases. Who acts: Sun, Moon, we, these. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, Moon, we, these), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:007-phases-eclipses-and-tides.lesson:0 # text = The Sun always lights half of the Moon, like a lamp lighting half of a ball; as the Moon goes round us we see more or less of that lit half, and these are the phases. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 007-phases-eclipses-and-tides.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 lights light VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 lighting lighting NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 5 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 23 round round ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 32 lit light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 27 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obj 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 39 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 phases phase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **light** | present | the Sun | half of the Moon and a lighting half of a ball | | | | always *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Product | | 2 | **go round** | present | the Moon | us | | | | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | present | we | more of that lit half | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | present | these | the phases | | | | | tree rules | 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:007-phases-eclipses-and-tides.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [The Moon, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/6-the-moon/16/) - next →: [Phases, eclipses and tides, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/)