--- title: The Moon spins once in the same time it takes to go round the Earth,… — The Moon's month and the year round the Sun · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon spins once in the same time it takes to go round the Earth, so the same face always looks at us, like a dancer turning to keep facing a partner. Who acts: Moon, it, same face, dancer. 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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, it, same face, dancer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:119-moon-month-and-year.lesson:10 # text = The Moon spins once in the same time it takes to go round the Earth, so the same face always looks at us, like a dancer turning to keep facing a partner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 119-moon-month-and-year.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 13 round round ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 22 advmod _ _ 22 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dancer dancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:xcomp 32 facing face VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | present | the Moon | | | | time | once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | present | it | the same time *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | | 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | the Earth | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **look** | present | the same face | | | | | at us; like a dancer; always *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at we=Theme | | 5 | **turn** | gerund | a dancer *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a dancer *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **face** | gerund | a dancer *not said here* | a partner | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme partner=Destination | 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:world:119-moon-month-and-year.lesson:10`. **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, 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: [The Moon's month and the year round th…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/9/) - next →: [The Moon's month and the year round th…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/)