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title: In a lunar eclipse the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon and… — Eclipses · tree and pragmatics
description: In a lunar eclipse the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon and the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon: the Moon goes dim and often turns coppery red, and everyone on the night side of the Earth can see it. Who acts: Earth, shadow, Moon, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Eclipses» of the world 
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# Eclipses, sentence 2

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In a lunar eclipse the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon and the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon: the Moon goes dim and often turns coppery red, and everyone on the night side of the Earth can see it.

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**Who acts:** Earth, shadow, Moon, everyone · **What happens:** pass, fall, go, turn, see, shadow · **To what, where:** lunar eclipse, Moon, shadow

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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 (Earth, shadow, Moon, everyone), 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:2
# text = In a lunar eclipse the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon and the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon: the Moon goes dim and often turns coppery red, and everyone on the night side of the Earth can see 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lunar	lunar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
27	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	often	often	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
31	coppery	coppery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
35	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	44	nsubj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
43	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	.	.	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 | **pass** | present | the Earth |  |  | a lunar eclipse |  | between the Sun and the Moon | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in eclipse=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | present | the Earth's shadow |  |  | the Moon |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on moon=Location |
| 3 | **go** | present | the Moon |  |  |  |  | dim *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | present | the Moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often, red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | can | everyone | shadow |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **shadow** |  | the Earth |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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