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title: The Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon and about 400 times f… — Eclipses · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon and about 400 times farther away, so they look almost the same size in the sky. Who acts: Sun. 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 13

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The Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon and about 400 times farther away, so they look almost the same size in the sky.

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**Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** be, look · **To what, where:** same size, sky

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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 (Sun), 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:13
# text = The Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon and about 400 times farther away, so they look almost the same size in the sky.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
21	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 Sun |  |  |  | time | than the Moon; wide *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | Sun | the same size |  | the sky |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme size=Attribute |

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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:13`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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