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title: During a total lunar eclipse the Moon often looks red, because a lit… — Eclipses · tree and pragmatics
description: During a total lunar eclipse the Moon often looks red, because a little sunlight is bent through the Earth's air onto it. Who acts: Moon. 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 12

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During a total lunar eclipse the Moon often looks red, because a little sunlight is bent through the Earth's air onto it.

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**Who acts:** Moon · **What happens:** look, bend · **To what, where:** little sunlight, air

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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: who acts (Moon), 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:12
# text = During a total lunar eclipse the Moon often looks red, because a little sunlight is bent through the Earth's air onto it.
# 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	During	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	lunar	lunar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **look** | present | the Moon |  |  |  | during a total lunar eclipse | often, red *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bend** | present · passive |  | a little sunlight |  | the Earth's air |  | onto eclipse | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme through air=Location |

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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:12`.

**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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