Maps and scale, sentence 14
The Earth is about 40,000 km around the equator, and the Greek scholar Eratosthenes estimated this size quite well around 240 BC.
Who acts: Earth, Greek scholar · What happens: be, estimate · To what, where: 40,000 km, equator, size, 240
This is a sentence of the lesson «Maps and scale» of the geography 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, Greek scholar), 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 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 km | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 km | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 40,000 | advmod |
| 5 | 40,000 | 40000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 km | nummod |
| 6 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 equator | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 equator | det |
| 9 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 km | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 estimated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 estimated | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 scholar | det |
| 13 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 scholar | amod |
| 14 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 estimated | nsubj |
| 15 | Eratosthenes | Eratosthenes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 scholar | appos |
| 16 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 km | conj |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 size | det |
| 18 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 estimated | obj |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 well | advmod |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 estimated | advmod |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 240 | case |
| 22 | 240 | 240 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 estimated | obl |
| 23 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 240 | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 km | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Earth | 40,000 km | the equator | tree rules | |||
| 2 | estimate | past | the Greek scholar | this size | 240 BC | well property | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent size=Value |
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:geography:001-maps-and-scale.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): 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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