The Moon, the planets and the stars, sentence 12

The Moon makes no light of its own; it reflects sunlight, and its phases come from how much of its lit half we can see.

Who acts: Moon, phases, we · What happens: make, reflect, come, see · To what, where: light, sunlight, lit half

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the stars» of the myths 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, phases, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 reflects	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reflects	nsubj
11	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	parataxis
12	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reflects	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 come	cc
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 phases	nmod:poss
16	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	nsubj
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 much	case
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 come	advcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 half	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 half	nmod:poss
23	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 half	amod
24	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	20 much	nmod
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 half	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present	the Moon	no light of Moon's own	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product
2	reflect	present	Moon	sunlight	tree rules
3	come	present	Moon's phases		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	can	we	Moon's lit half not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus

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, 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:myths:014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.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): 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.

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