The Moon and its phases, sentence 12
A waxing moon grows bigger each night, and a waning moon grows smaller.
Who acts: waxing moon, waning moon · What happens: grow, wane
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 (waxing moon, waning moon), 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 | waxing | waxing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moon | compound |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 grows | xcomp |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grows | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grows | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moon | det |
| 11 | waning | wane | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 moon | amod |
| 12 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grows | nsubj |
| 13 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grows | conj |
| 14 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 grows | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a waxing moon | night | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | wane | gerund | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | grow | present | a waning moon | small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:003-the-moon-and-its-phases.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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