--- title: When the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, its lit half faces a… — The Moon and its phases · tree and pragmatics description: When the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, its lit half faces away from us and we see a new moon; when the Moon is on the far side of the Earth from the Sun, we see the whole lit half, a full moon. Who acts: Moon, lit half, we. 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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, lit half, we), 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:2 # text = When the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, its lit half faces away from us and we see a new moon; when the Moon is on the far side of the Earth from the Sun, we see the whole lit half, a full moon. # 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 ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 3 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 between between ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 advcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 lit lit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 15 nsubj _ _ 15 faces face VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 when when SCONJ WRB _ 33 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 lit lit NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 42 obj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos 51 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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 | **is** | present | the Moon | | | | | between the Earth and the Sun | tree rules | | 2 | **face** | present | Moon's lit half | | | | | from us; away *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | present | we | a new moon | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | the Moon | | | the far side | | of the Earth from the Sun | tree rules | | 5 | **see** | present | we | the whole lit half | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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 ×2. **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 and its phases, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/3-the-moon-and-its-phases/1/) - next →: [The Moon and its phases, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/3-the-moon-and-its-phases/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/3-the-moon-and-its-phases/)