--- title: From new moon, when the lit side faces away and we see almost nothin… — The Moon's month and the year round the Sun · tree and pragmatics description: From new moon, when the lit side faces away and we see almost nothing, it waxes (grows) to full moon and wanes (shrinks) back again in about 29 and a half days. Who acts: lit side, we, side. 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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 (lit side, we, side), 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:4 # text = From new moon, when the lit side faces away and we see almost nothing, it waxes (grows) to full moon and wanes (shrinks) back again in about 29 and a half days. # 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 ×3 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 lit lit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 faces face VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 almost almost ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 waxes wax VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 wanes wane VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 28 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 appos _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 about about ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 29 29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:det 37 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:compound 38 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **face** | present | the lit side | | | | | away *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present | we | nothing | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 3 | **wax** | present | side | | | new moon | | to full moon | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | present | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **wane** | present | side *not said here* | | | | again | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **shrink** | present | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:4`. **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 ×3. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/3/) - next →: [The Moon's month and the year round th…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/)