Day and night, and the Moon's faces, sentence 10

The Moon shines with reflected sunlight; it is always half lit, and we see different amounts of the lit half as it goes round the Earth.

Who acts: Moon, we · What happens: shine, reflect, be, see, go, amount · To what, where: different amounts, Earth, lit half

This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night, and the Moon's faces» of the physics 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, 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 shines	nsubj
3	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sunlight	case
5	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sunlight	amod
6	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shines	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 shines	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 half	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 half	cop
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 half	advmod
11	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 shines	conj
12	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 half	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 half	conj
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 amounts	amod
18	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 see	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 half	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 half	det
21	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 half	amod
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 amounts	nmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 goes	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 goes	nsubj
25	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 see	advcl
26	round	round	ADP	_	28 Earth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Earth	det
28	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 goes	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shines	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	present	the Moon			with reflected sunlight	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sunlight=Theme
2	reflect	participle					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Moon			always, half property	tree rules
4	see	present	we	different amounts of the lit half			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer amount=Stimulus
5	go	present	Moon		the Earth		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial_Location
6	amount			the lit half			nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

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:physics:039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.lesson:10.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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