Day and night, and the Moon's faces, sentence 16

It is a myth that the far side of the Moon is always dark: "dark" once meant unknown, and at new Moon the far side is in full sunshine.

Who acts: far side · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: myth, full sunshine

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 (far side), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 myth	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 dark	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
7	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 side	amod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dark	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Moon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Moon	det
11	Moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dark	cop
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 dark	advmod
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 myth	acl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 dark	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 dark	punct
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 myth	parataxis
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 dark	punct
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 meant	advmod
20	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 dark	advcl
21	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 meant	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sunshine	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sunshine	cc
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 Moon	case
25	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Moon	amod
26	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 sunshine	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 side	det
28	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 side	amod
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sunshine	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sunshine	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 sunshine	case
32	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sunshine	amod
33	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dark	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 myth	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a myth			tree rules
2	is	present	the far side of the Moon	a myth not said here		always, dark property	tree rules
3	mean	participle				once, unknown property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the far side		full sunshine	at new Moon	tree rules

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:16.

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.

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