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title: We do not get eclipses every month because the Moon's orbit is tilte… — Phases, eclipses and tides · tree and pragmatics
description: We do not get eclipses every month because the Moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit. Who acts: We. A sentence of the lesson «Phases, eclipses and tides» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Phases, eclipses and tides, sentence 12

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We do not get eclipses every month because the Moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** not get, tilt · **To what, where:** eclipses, orbit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phases, eclipses and tides» 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 (We), 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:12
# text = We do not get eclipses every month because the Moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit.
# 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 ×2
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	eclipses	eclipse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	orbit	orbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	tilted	tilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	orbit	orbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | present · do-support | We | eclipses |  |  | month |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eclipse=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tilt** | present · passive |  | the Moon's orbit |  |  |  | to the Earth's orbit; 5 degrees *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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**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. **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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