Eclipses, sentence 2
In a lunar eclipse the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon and the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon: the Moon goes dim and often turns coppery red, and everyone on the night side of the Earth can see it.
Who acts: Earth, shadow, Moon, everyone · What happens: pass, fall, go, turn, see, shadow · To what, where: lunar eclipse, Moon, shadow
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eclipses» 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 (Earth, shadow, Moon, everyone), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 eclipse | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 eclipse | det |
| 3 | lunar | lunar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eclipse | amod |
| 4 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passes | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Earth | det |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 passes | nsubj |
| 7 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 Sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 passes | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Moon | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Moon | det |
| 13 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sun | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 falls | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Earth | det |
| 16 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Earth | case |
| 18 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 falls | nsubj |
| 19 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 passes | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Moon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Moon | det |
| 22 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 falls | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 goes | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Moon | det |
| 25 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 goes | nsubj |
| 26 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 passes | parataxis |
| 27 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 goes | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 turns | cc |
| 29 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 turns | advmod |
| 30 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 goes | conj |
| 31 | coppery | coppery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 red | amod |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 turns | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 see | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 see | cc |
| 35 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 44 see | nsubj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 side | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 side | det |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 side | compound |
| 39 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 everyone | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Earth | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Earth | det |
| 42 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 side | nmod |
| 43 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 see | aux |
| 44 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 passes | conj |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 see | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | the Earth | a lunar eclipse | between the Sun and the Moon | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in eclipse=Location | |||
| 2 | fall | present | the Earth's shadow | the Moon | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on moon=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | present | the Moon | dim property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | present | the Moon not said here | often, red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | can | everyone | shadow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | shadow | the Earth | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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:008-eclipses.lesson:2.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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