Earth from space, sentence 5
The sharpest argument is often a question: if summer came from being close to the Sun, why is it summer in Australia at Christmas?
Who acts: sharpest argument, summer, Sun · What happens: be, come · To what, where: question, summer, Australia
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 (sharpest argument, summer, 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 argument | det |
| 2 | sharpest | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 argument | amod |
| 3 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 question | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 question | cop |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 question | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 question | det |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 question | acl |
| 12 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 close | mark |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 close | cop |
| 14 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 came | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Sun | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sun | det |
| 17 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 close | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 summer | punct |
| 19 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 summer | advmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 summer | cop |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 summer | nsubj |
| 22 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 question | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Australia | case |
| 24 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 summer | nmod |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Christmas | case |
| 26 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 summer | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 question | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the sharpest argument | a question | often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | summer | a question not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location question=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | summer not said here | to the Sun; close property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | Sun | summer | Australia | at Christmas | tree rules |
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:5.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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