The Moon's month and the year round the Sun, sentence 3

The Moon makes no light of its own: the Sun always lights half of it, and as the Moon travels round the Earth we see more or less of that lit half.

Who acts: Moon, Sun, we · What happens: make, light, travel, see · To what, where: light, half, Earth, more

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon's month and the year round the Sun» of the world 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, Sun, 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	_	13 lights	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sun	det
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lights	nsubj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 lights	advmod
13	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	parataxis
14	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 lights	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 half	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 travels	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Moon	det
21	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 travels	nsubj
22	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 see	advcl
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 Earth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Earth	det
25	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 travels	obl
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
27	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lights	conj
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 see	obj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 less	cc
30	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 more	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 half	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 half	det
33	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 half	amod
34	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 less	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	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	make	present	the Moon	no light of Moon's own			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product
2	light	present	the Sun	half of Moon		always property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Product
3	travel	present	the Moon		the Earth		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round earth=Trajectory
4	see	present	we	more			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=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:world:119-moon-month-and-year.lesson:3.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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