Day and night, and the Moon's faces, sentence 11

The Moon spins once for each orbit of the Earth, so we always see the same face; its far side was first photographed by a spacecraft in 1959.

Who acts: Moon, we · What happens: spin, see, photograph · To what, where: same face, far side, 1959

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 spins	nsubj
3	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 spins	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 orbit	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 orbit	det
7	orbit	orbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spins	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 orbit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 see	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 see	advmod
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spins	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 face	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 face	amod
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 photographed	punct
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 side	nmod:poss
21	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 side	amod
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 photographed	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 photographed	aux:pass
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 photographed	advmod
25	photographed	photograph	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spins	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 spacecraft	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 spacecraft	det
28	spacecraft	spacecraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 photographed	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 1959	case
30	1959	1959	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 photographed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spins	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spin	present	the Moon			for each orbit of the Earth; once property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for orbit=Beneficiary
2	see	present	we	the same face		always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
3	photograph	past · passive		Moon's far side	1959	by a spacecraft; first property	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by spacecraft=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, 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:11.

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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