Buildings and architecture, sentence 8
The Great Wall of China is very long but only about as wide as a road, so it cannot be seen from the Moon with the naked eye.
Who acts: Great Wall · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: Wall, Moon
This is a sentence of the lesson «Buildings and architecture» of the arts 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 (Great Wall), 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 | 3 Wall | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wall | amod |
| 3 | Wall | Wall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 long | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 China | case |
| 5 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wall | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 long | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 road | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 about | advmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 road | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 wide | advmod |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 long | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 long | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seen | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 seen | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 seen | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seen | aux:pass |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 long | parataxis |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Moon | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Moon | det |
| 26 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 eye | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 eye | det |
| 29 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 eye | amod |
| 30 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Great Wall of China | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Great Wall of China not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not see | can · passive | Wall | the Moon | with the naked eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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:arts:034-buildings-and-architecture.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 ×2, 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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