--- title: The Moon is a ball of rock that goes around the Earth about once a m… — The Moon and its phases · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon is a ball of rock that goes around the Earth about once a month; it makes no light of its own and shines only because sunlight falls on it. Who acts: Moon, rock, sunlight. 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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, rock, sunlight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:003-the-moon-and-its-phases.lesson:0 # text = The Moon is a ball of rock that goes around the Earth about once a month; it makes no light of its own and shines only because sunlight falls on it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 003-the-moon-and-its-phases.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, 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 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 around around ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 9 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 shines shine VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 30 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case 29 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Moon | a ball | | | | of rock | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | present | rock | | | the Earth | | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around earth=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **make** | present | Moon | no light of Moon's own | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material light=Product | | 4 | **shine** | present | Moon *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | present | sunlight | | | Moon | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=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:003-the-moon-and-its-phases.lesson:0`. **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, 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 seasons and the tilt of the axis, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/19/) - next →: [The Moon and its phases, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/3-the-moon-and-its-phases/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/3-the-moon-and-its-phases/)