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title: A supermoon is a full moon when the Moon is nearest the Earth; it lo… — The Moon's month and the year round the Sun · tree and pragmatics
description: A supermoon is a full moon when the Moon is nearest the Earth; it looks only a little bigger than the smallest full moon, hardly enough to notice. Who acts: supermoon, 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 d
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# The Moon's month and the year round the Sun, sentence 21

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A supermoon is a full moon when the Moon is nearest the Earth; it looks only a little bigger than the smallest full moon, hardly enough to notice.

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**Who acts:** supermoon, Moon · **What happens:** be, look, notice · **To what, where:** full 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 (supermoon, 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:21
# text = A supermoon is a full moon when the Moon is nearest the Earth; it looks only a little bigger than the smallest full moon, hardly enough to notice.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	supermoon	supermoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
20	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | a supermoon | a full moon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Moon |  |  |  |  | the Earth *obl*; near *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | Moon |  |  |  |  | big, enough *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **notice** | to-infinitive | Moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:21`.

**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 ×2. **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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