--- title: There is no eclipse every month because the Moon's path is tilted a… — Eclipses · tree and pragmatics description: There is no eclipse every month because the Moon's path is tilted a little, so usually it passes just above or below the line between the Sun and the Earth. Who acts: eclipse, Moon. A sentence of the lesson «Eclipses» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/4/) [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/) / 4 # Eclipses, sentence 4 There is no eclipse every month because the Moon's path is tilted a little, so usually it passes just above or below the line between the Sun and the Earth. **Who acts:** eclipse, Moon · **What happens:** be, tilt, pass · **To what, where:** path, line 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 (eclipse, 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:4 # text = There is no eclipse every month because the Moon's path is tilted a little, so usually it passes just above or below the line between the Sun and the Earth. # 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 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 eclipse eclipse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 tilted tilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 usually usually ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 just just ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 22 above above ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 below below ADP IN _ 22 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 between between ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no eclipse | | | there | month | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tilt** | present · passive | | the Moon's path | | | | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **pass** | present | Moon | | | the line between the Sun and the Earth | | usually *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme above line=Location | 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:4`. **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. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/3/) - next →: [Eclipses, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/)