Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 17
The moon looks bigger near the horizon only because the brain compares it with trees and buildings.
Who acts: moon, brain · What happens: look, compare · To what, where: moon
This is a sentence of the lesson «Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet» of the everyday 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 (moon, brain), 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 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 looks | xcomp |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 horizon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horizon | det |
| 7 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bigger | obl |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 compares | advmod |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 compares | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brain | det |
| 11 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 compares | nsubj |
| 12 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 looks | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 compares | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 compares | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 buildings | cc |
| 17 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 trees | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the moon | big property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | compare | present | the brain | moon | with trees and buildings | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tree=Co-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:everyday:280-illusions-and-adverts.lesson:17.
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. 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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