Earth from space, sentence 9

The Earth is not a perfect ball: it is about 43 kilometres wider across the equator than from pole to pole.

Who acts: Earth · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: perfect ball, 43 kilometres

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 (Earth), 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	7 ball	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ball	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 ball	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ball	det
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ball	amod
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 kilometres	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kilometres	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kilometres	cop
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 43	advmod
12	43	43	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 kilometres	nummod
13	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wider	obl:unmarked
14	wider	wide	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 ball	parataxis
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 equator	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 equator	det
17	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wider	obl
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 pole	case
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 pole	case
20	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 equator	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 pole	case
22	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pole	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ball	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the Earth	a perfect ball					tree rules
2	is a	present	Earth	43 kilometres					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:9.

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 ×1, 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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