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title: Spring tides, with the biggest range, happen at new and full Moon, a… — Phases, eclipses and tides · tree and pragmatics
description: Spring tides, with the biggest range, happen at new and full Moon, and neap tides, with the smallest range, at the quarter Moons. Who acts: Spring tides. 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 
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# Phases, eclipses and tides, sentence 15

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Spring tides, with the biggest range, happen at new and full Moon, and neap tides, with the smallest range, at the quarter Moons.

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**Who acts:** Spring tides · **What happens:** happen · **To what, where:** new Moon

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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 (Spring tides), 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:15
# text = Spring tides, with the biggest range, happen at new and full Moon, and neap tides, with the smallest range, at the quarter Moons.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	neap	neap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **happen** | present | Spring tides and neap tides with the smallest range and the quarter Moons |  |  | new Moon |  | with the biggest range | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at moon=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:007-phases-eclipses-and-tides.lesson:15`.

**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, 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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