--- title: In a solar eclipse the Moon slides between us and the Sun at new Moo… — Phases, eclipses and tides · tree and pragmatics description: In a solar eclipse the Moon slides between us and the Sun at new Moon and covers it; because the Moon's path is tilted, this does not happen every month. Who acts: Moon, this. 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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 (Moon, this), 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:2 # text = In a solar eclipse the Moon slides between us and the Sun at new Moon and covers it; because the Moon's path is tilted, this does not happen every month. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 solar solar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 eclipse eclipse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 slides slide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 8 between between ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 tilted tilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 29 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slide** | present | the Moon | | | a solar eclipse | | between us; at new Moon | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in eclipse=Source between we=Trajectory at moon=Destination | | 2 | **cover** | present | the Moon *not said here* | eclipse | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | | 3 | **tilt** | present · passive | | the Moon's path | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **not** **happen** | present · do-support | this | | | | month | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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: [Phases, eclipses and tides, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/1/) - next →: [Phases, eclipses and tides, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/)