--- title: The Moon is about 400 times smaller across than the Sun but also abo… — Eclipses · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon is about 400 times smaller across than the Sun but also about 400 times closer, so in our sky they look almost the same size, which is why the Moon can just cover the Sun, like a coin held near your eye covering a far-away house. Who acts: Moon, Sun, same size. A sentence of the lesson «Ecl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/3/) [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/) / 3 # Eclipses, sentence 3 The Moon is about 400 times smaller across than the Sun but also about 400 times closer, so in our sky they look almost the same size, which is why the Moon can just cover the Sun, like a coin held near your eye covering a far-away house. **Who acts:** Moon, Sun, same size · **What happens:** be, look, cover, hold · **To what, where:** Sun, same size, sky, coin, eye, house 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, Sun, same size), 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:3 # text = The Moon is about 400 times smaller across than the Sun but also about 400 times closer, so in our sky they look almost the same size, which is why the Moon can just cover the Sun, like a coin held near your eye covering a far-away house. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 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 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 8 across across ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 also also ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 almost almost ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 just just ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 like like ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 acl _ _ 45 near near ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 48 covering cover VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 50 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 52 advmod _ _ 51 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 50 punct _ _ 52 away away ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Moon | | | the Sun | time | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the Moon *not said here* | | | | time | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | present | Sun | the same size | | our sky | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme size=Attribute | | 4 | **is** | present | the same size | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **cover** | can | the Moon | | the Sun | | | like a coin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sun=Destination | | 6 | **hold** | participle | | a coin *not said here* | | your eye | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near eye=Location | | 7 | **cover** | gerund | | a house | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | 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:3`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Eclipses, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/2/) - next →: [Eclipses, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/)