The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world, sentence 14

The northern lights glow when tiny particles from the sun hit gases high in the air, mostly green from oxygen, and near Antarctica there are southern lights too.

Who acts: northern lights, tiny particles, southern lights · What happens: glow, hit, be · To what, where: gases, Antarctica

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» of the biology 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 (northern lights, tiny particles, southern lights), 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 lights	det
2	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lights	amod
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 glow	nsubj
4	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 hit	mark
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 particles	amod
7	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hit	nsubj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 particles	nmod
11	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 glow	advcl
12	gases	gas	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hit	obj
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gases	amod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 high	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 green	punct
18	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	19 green	advmod
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gases	parataxis
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 oxygen	case
21	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 green	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 are	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 are	cc
24	near	near	ADP	_	25 Antarctica	case
25	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 are	obl
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 are	expl
27	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 glow	conj
28	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lights	amod
29	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 are	nsubj
30	too	too	ADV	_	27 are	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	glow	present	the northern lights			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit	present	tiny particles from the sun	gases		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gas=Co-Theme
3	does	present	southern lights		Antarctica; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near antarctica=Location

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:biology:006-the-arctic.lesson:14.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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