--- title: The Moon rises about 50 minutes later each night, because while the… — The Moon's month and the year round the Sun · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon rises about 50 minutes later each night, because while the Earth spins, the Moon moves on along its path and the Earth has to turn a bit more to catch it up. Who acts: Moon, Earth. 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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, Earth), 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:8 # text = The Moon rises about 50 minutes later each night, because while the Earth spins, the Moon moves on along its path and the Earth has to turn a bit more to catch it up. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 14 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 on on ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 21 along along ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 37 . . 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 | **rise** | present | the Moon | | | | night | late *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **spin** | present | the Earth | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **move on** | present | the Moon | | | Moon's path | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory | | 4 | **have** | present | the Earth | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **turn** | to-infinitive | the Earth *not said here* | more | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme | | 6 | **catch up** | to-infinitive | the Earth *not said here* | Moon | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:8`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The Moon's month and the year round th…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/7/) - next →: [The Moon's month and the year round th…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/)