--- title: The Moon makes no light of its own: the Sun always lights half of it… — The Moon's month and the year round the Sun · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon makes no light of its own: the Sun always lights half of it, and as the Moon travels round the Earth we see more or less of that lit half. Who acts: Moon, Sun, we. 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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, Sun, 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:3 # text = The Moon makes no light of its own: the Sun always lights half of it, and as the Moon travels round the Earth we see more or less of that lit half. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 13 advmod _ _ 13 lights light VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 13 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 23 round round ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 33 lit lit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | the Moon | no light of Moon's own | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product | | 2 | **light** | present | the Sun | half of Moon | | | | always *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Product | | 3 | **travel** | present | the Moon | | | the Earth | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round earth=Trajectory | | 4 | **see** | present | we | more | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The Moon's month and the year round th…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/2/) - next →: [The Moon's month and the year round th…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/)