The Moon's month and the year round the Sun, sentence 8

The Moon rises about 50 minutes later each night, because while the Earth spins, the Moon moves on along its path and the Earth has to turn a bit more to catch it up.

Who acts: Moon, Earth · What happens: rise, spin, move on, have, turn, catch up · To what, where: path, more, 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 (Moon, Earth), 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 rises	nsubj
3	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 50	advmod
5	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 later	obl:unmarked
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 rises	advmod
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rises	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spins	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 spins	mark
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 because	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Earth	det
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 spins	nsubj
15	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 moves	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 moves	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Moon	det
18	Moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 moves	nsubj
19	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rises	advcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 moves	compound:prt
21	along	along	ADP	_	23 path	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 path	nmod:poss
23	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 moves	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 has	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Earth	det
26	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 moves	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 turn	mark
29	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 has	xcomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bit	det
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 more	obl:unmarked
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 turn	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 catch	mark
34	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 turn	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 catch	obj
36	up	up	ADP	_	34 catch	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rises	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	the Moon			night	late property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spin	present	the Earth					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	move on	present	the Moon		Moon's path			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory
4	have	present	the Earth					tree rules
5	turn	to-infinitive	the Earth not said here	more				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme
6	catch up	to-infinitive	the Earth not said here	Moon				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:8.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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