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title: A Moon that looks bigger each night is waxing; a Moon that looks sma… — The Moon's month and the year round the Sun · tree and pragmatics
description: A Moon that looks bigger each night is waxing; a Moon that looks smaller each night is waning. Who acts: Moon. 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 17

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A Moon that looks bigger each night is waxing; a Moon that looks smaller each night is waning.

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**Who acts:** Moon · **What happens:** look, wax, wane

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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 (Moon), 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:17
# text = A Moon that looks bigger each night is waxing; a Moon that looks smaller each night is waning.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	waxing	wax	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	waning	wane	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **look** | present | a Moon |  |  |  | night | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wax** | present · progressive | a Moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present | a Moon |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wane** | present · progressive | a Moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:17`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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