--- title: An eclipse happens when the Sun, the Earth and the Moon stand in one… — Eclipses · tree and pragmatics description: An eclipse happens when the Sun, the Earth and the Moon stand in one straight line, so that one of them casts its shadow on another. Who acts: eclipse, Sun, one. A sentence of the lesson «Eclipses» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/0/) [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/) / [Eclipses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/) / 0 # Eclipses, sentence 0 An eclipse happens when the Sun, the Earth and the Moon stand in one straight line, so that one of them casts its shadow on another. **Who acts:** eclipse, Sun, one · **What happens:** happen, stand, cast, shadow · **To what, where:** one straight line, shadow, another This is a sentence of the lesson «Eclipses» 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 (eclipse, Sun, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:008-eclipses.lesson:0 # text = An eclipse happens when the Sun, the Earth and the Moon stand in one straight line, so that one of them casts its shadow on another. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 008-eclipses.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 ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 eclipse eclipse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 13 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 16 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 so so SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 casts cast VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | a eclipse | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | present | the Sun and the Earth and the Moon | | | one straight line | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in line=Location | | 3 | **cast** | present | one of Sun | eclipse's shadow | | another | | | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme on another=Destination | | 4 | **shadow** | | eclipse | | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:008-eclipses.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 ×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 shape and size of the Earth, the p…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/16/) - next →: [Eclipses, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/)