--- title: People long ago counted months by the Moon for farming and festivals… — The Moon's month and the year round the Sun · tree and pragmatics description: People long ago counted months by the Moon for farming and festivals, because its changing shape is easy to see and count; the word "month" comes from "moon". Who acts: People, changing shape, word. 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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 (People, changing shape, word), 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:25 # text = People long ago counted months by the Moon for farming and festivals, because its changing shape is easy to see and count; the word "month" comes from "moon". # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 ago ago ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 counted count VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 10 farming farming NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 festivals festival NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 csubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | past | People | | | | month | by the Moon; for farming and festivals; ago *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **change** | gerund | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Moon's changing shape | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **count** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **come** | present | the word | | | moon | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from moon=Initial\_Location | 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:25`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/24/) - next →: [Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/)