The Moon and its phases, sentence 1

The Sun always lights one half of the Moon, but as the Moon goes around us we see different amounts of that lit half: these changing shapes are the phases.

Who acts: Sun, Moon, we, changing shapes · What happens: light, go around, see, change, be, amount · To what, where: one half, us, different amounts, phases, lit half

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon and its phases» 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 (Sun, Moon, we, changing shapes), 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 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lights	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 lights	advmod
4	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 half	nummod
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 lights	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Moon	det
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 half	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 goes	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Moon	det
14	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 goes	nsubj
15	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 see	advcl
16	around	around	ADV	_	15 goes	advmod
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 goes	obl
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lights	conj
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 amounts	amod
21	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 see	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 half	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 half	det
24	lit	lit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 half	compound
25	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 amounts	nmod
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 phases	punct
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 shapes	det
28	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 shapes	amod
29	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 phases	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 phases	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 phases	det
32	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lights	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lights	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	light	present	the Sun	one half of the Moon	always property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Product
2	go around	present	the Moon	us	around property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	present	we	different amounts of that lit half		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer amount=Stimulus
4	change	gerund				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	this changing shapes	the phases		tree rules
6	amount			that lit half		nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:003-the-moon-and-its-phases.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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