Phases, eclipses and tides, sentence 7
A growing Moon is waxing and a shrinking one is waning, and from Britain a waxing Moon is lit on its right side.
Who acts: growing Moon, shrinking one · What happens: grow, wax, shrink, wane, lit · To what, where: waxing Moon, Britain
This is a sentence of the lesson «Phases, eclipses and tides» of the space 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 (growing Moon, shrinking one), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 2 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Moon | amod |
| 3 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waxing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 waxing | aux |
| 5 | waxing | wax | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 waning | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | shrinking | shrink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waning | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 waning | aux |
| 11 | waning | wane | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 waxing | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lit | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lit | cc |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Britain | case |
| 15 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lit | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Moon | det |
| 17 | waxing | waxing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Moon | compound |
| 18 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lit | aux:pass |
| 20 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 waxing | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 side | nmod:poss |
| 23 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 side | amod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lit | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waxing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | wax | present · progressive | a growing Moon | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shrink | gerund | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | wane | present · progressive | a shrinking one | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | lit | present · passive | a waxing Moon | Britain | on quarter's right side | 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:space:007-phases-eclipses-and-tides.lesson:7.
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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