--- title: A growing Moon is waxing and a shrinking one is waning, and from Bri… — Phases, eclipses and tides · tree and pragmatics description: A growing Moon is waxing and a shrinking one is waning, and from Britain a waxing Moon is lit on its right side. Who acts: growing Moon, shrinking one. 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 ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [Phases, eclipses and tides](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/) / 7 # Phases, eclipses and tides, sentence 7 A growing Moon is waxing and a shrinking one is waning, and from Britain a waxing Moon is lit on its right side. **Who acts:** growing Moon, shrinking one · **What happens:** grow, wax, shrink, wane, lit · **To what, where:** waxing Moon, Britain 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 (growing Moon, shrinking one), 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:7 # text = A growing Moon is waxing and a shrinking one is waning, and from Britain a waxing Moon is lit on its right side. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 Moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 waxing wax VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 shrinking shrink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 waning wane VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 waxing waxing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 lit lit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wax** | present · progressive | a growing Moon | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **shrink** | gerund | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **wane** | present · progressive | a shrinking one | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **lit** | present · passive | | a waxing Moon | | Britain | | on quarter's right side | 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:7`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Phases, eclipses and tides, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/6/) - next →: [Phases, eclipses and tides, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/)