Earth from space, sentence 6

The Great Wall of China is long but narrow and land-coloured; astronauts say it is practically impossible to see with bare eyes from orbit, while cities at night are easy to see.

Who acts: Great Wall, astronauts, cities · What happens: be, colour, say, see · To what, where: orbit · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Great Wall, astronauts, cities), 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 Wall	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Wall	amod
3	Wall	Wall	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 long	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 China	case
5	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wall	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	cop
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 narrow	cc
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 long	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 coloured	cc
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coloured	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 land	punct
13	coloured	colour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 long	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 impossible	expl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 impossible	cop
19	practically	practically	ADV	_	20 impossible	advmod
20	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 say	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 impossible	csubj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 eyes	case
24	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eyes	amod
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 orbit	case
27	orbit	orbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 easy	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 easy	mark
30	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 easy	nsubj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 night	case
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cities	nmod
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 easy	cop
34	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 see	ccomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 easy	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Great Wall of China		long property	tree rules
2	be		the Great Wall of China not said here			tree rules
3	colour	participle	the Great Wall of China not said here			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	astronauts			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present			impossible, practically property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive		orbit	with bare eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	present	cities at night		easy property	tree rules
8	see	to-infinitive	cities at night not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:6.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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