Earth from space, sentence 4

The real reasons are better: astronauts float because they and their station are falling round the Earth together, seasons come from the Earth's tilt, and the Sun seems to move because the Earth spins.

Who acts: real reasons, astronauts, seasons, Sun, Earth · What happens: be, float, fall, come, seem, move · To what, where: Earth, tilt

This is a sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» of the myths 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 (real reasons, astronauts, seasons, Sun), 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 reasons	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reasons	amod
3	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 better	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 float	punct
7	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 float	nsubj
8	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 better	parataxis
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 falling	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 falling	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 station	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 station	nmod:poss
13	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 they	conj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 falling	aux
15	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 float	advcl
16	round	round	ADP	_	18 Earth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Earth	det
18	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 falling	obl
19	together	together	ADV	_	15 falling	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
21	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 come	nsubj
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 better	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	27 tilt	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Earth	det
25	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 tilt	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Earth	case
27	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seems	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 seems	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Sun	det
31	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 seems	nsubj
32	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 move	mark
34	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 seems	xcomp
35	because	because	SCONJ	_	38 spins	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Earth	det
37	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 spins	nsubj
38	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 move	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the real reasons		good property	tree rules
2	float	present	astronauts			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	present · progressive	astronauts = astronaut	the Earth	together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial_Location
4	come	present	seasons	the Earth's tilt		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tilt=Initial_Location
5	seem	present	the Sun			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	move	to-infinitive	the Sun not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	spin	present	the Earth			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	tilt		the Earth			nom tilt «event intransitive»: 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:myths:013-earth-from-space.lesson:4.

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, R6-punct-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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