The Moon's month and the year round the Sun, sentence 4
From new moon, when the lit side faces away and we see almost nothing, it waxes (grows) to full moon and wanes (shrinks) back again in about 29 and a half days.
Who acts: lit side, we, side · What happens: face, see, wax, grow, wane, shrink · To what, where: nothing, new moon
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 (lit side, we, 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 moon | case |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moon | amod |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 waxes | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 away | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 faces | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | lit | lit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 faces | nsubj |
| 9 | faces | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moon | advcl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 faces | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 faces | conj |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 nothing | advmod |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moon | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 waxes | nsubj |
| 18 | waxes | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 grows | punct |
| 20 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 waxes | parataxis |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 grows | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 moon | case |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 moon | amod |
| 24 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 waxes | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wanes | cc |
| 26 | wanes | wane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 waxes | conj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 shrinks | punct |
| 28 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 wanes | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 shrinks | punct |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 again | advmod |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 wanes | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 29 | case |
| 33 | about | about | ADV | _ | 34 29 | advmod |
| 34 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 again | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 days | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 half | det |
| 37 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 34 29 | conj |
| 38 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 29 | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 waxes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | present | the lit side | away property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | we | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wax | present | side | new moon | to full moon | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | grow | present | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | wane | present | side not said here | again | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | shrink | present | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:world:119-moon-month-and-year.lesson:4.
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 ×3. 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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