--- title: The Moon flag had a rod along its top to hold it out; it moved when… — "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment se… · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon flag had a rod along its top to hold it out; it moved when astronauts twisted the pole, and with no air to slow it, it kept wobbling longer. Who acts: Moon flag, flag, astronauts. A sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» of the world course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["It's on TikTok so it's true" and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section/) / 22 # "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 22 The Moon flag had a rod along its top to hold it out; it moved when astronauts twisted the pole, and with no air to slow it, it kept wobbling longer. **Who acts:** Moon flag, flag, astronauts · **What happens:** have, hold out, move, twist, slow, keep · **To what, where:** rod, flag, pole This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» 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 (Moon flag, flag, astronauts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:22 # text = The Moon flag had a rod along its top to hold it out; it moved when astronauts twisted the pole, and with no air to slow it, it kept wobbling longer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 along along ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 twisted twist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 slow slow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 33 wobbling wobble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 xcomp _ _ 34 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 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 | **have** | past | the Moon flag | a rod | | | | along flag's top | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Patient | | 2 | **hold out** | to-infinitive | the Moon flag *not said here* | flag | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **move** | past | flag | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **twist** | past | astronauts | the pole | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pole=Theme | | 5 | **slow** | to-infinitive | flag *not said here* | pole | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **keep** | past | flag | | | | | with no air | tree rules | | 7 | **wobble** | gerund | flag *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:22`. **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. **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. 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