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title: At new moon the lit side of the Moon faces away from us, so we see a… — The Moon's month and the year round the Sun · tree and pragmatics
description: At new moon the lit side of the Moon faces away from us, so we see almost nothing for about a night. Who acts: lit side, we. A sentence of the lesson «The Moon's month and the year round the Sun» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Moon's month and the year round the Sun, sentence 16

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At new moon the lit side of the Moon faces away from us, so we see almost nothing for about a night.

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**Who acts:** lit side, we · **What happens:** face, see · **To what, where:** nothing, new moon

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon's month and the year round the Sun» of the world 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 (lit side, we), 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:16
# text = At new moon the lit side of the Moon faces away from us, so we see almost nothing for about a night.
# 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
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	lit	lit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	faces	face	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **face** | present | the lit side of the Moon |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present | we | nothing |  | new moon | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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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:world:119-moon-month-and-year.lesson:16`.

**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. **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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