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title: A total solar eclipse is seen only along a narrow strip of the Earth… — Eclipses · tree and pragmatics
description: A total solar eclipse is seen only along a narrow strip of the Earth and lasts only a few minutes in each place. A sentence of the lesson «Eclipses» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Eclipses, sentence 10

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A total solar eclipse is seen only along a narrow strip of the Earth and lasts only a few minutes in each place.

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**What happens:** see, last · **To what, where:** total solar eclipse, place

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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: 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:10
# text = A total solar eclipse is seen only along a narrow strip of the Earth and lasts only a few minutes in each place.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · passive |  | a total solar eclipse |  |  |  | along a narrow strip of the Earth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **last** | present |  |  |  | each place | minute |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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:008-eclipses.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): no change. **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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