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title: At new moon the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, and its dark… — The Moon and its phases · tree and pragmatics
description: At new moon the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, and its dark side faces us. Who acts: Moon, dark side. A sentence of the lesson «The Moon and its phases» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Moon and its phases, sentence 10

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At new moon the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, and its dark side faces us.

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**Who acts:** Moon, dark side · **What happens:** be, face · **To what, where:** new moon, us

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon and its phases» 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, dark side), 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:10
# text = At new moon the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, and its dark side faces us.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	faces	face	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Moon |  |  | new moon |  | between the Earth and the Sun | tree rules |
| 2 | **face** | present | Moon's dark side |  | us |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Destination |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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