The Moon, the planets and the stars, sentence 13

Stars twinkle because their light is bent by moving air in our atmosphere; seen from space, they don't twinkle.

Who acts: Stars · What happens: twinkle, bend, move, see, not twinkle, light · To what, where: light, air, atmosphere, space

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the stars» 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 (Stars), 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	Stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 twinkle	nsubj
2	twinkle	twinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 bent	mark
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 light	nmod:poss
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bent	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bent	aux:pass
7	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 twinkle	advcl
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 moving	mark
9	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 bent	advcl
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moving	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 atmosphere	case
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 atmosphere	nmod:poss
13	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moving	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 twinkle	advcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 space	case
17	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 twinkle	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 twinkle	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 twinkle	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 twinkle	advmod
22	twinkle	twinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 twinkle	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 twinkle	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	twinkle	present	Stars			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bend	present · passive		stars's light		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
3	move	gerund		air	our atmosphere	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent air=Theme
4	see	participle	stars = star not said here		space	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not twinkle	present · do-support	stars = star			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	light		stars = star			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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:014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.lesson:13.

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 ×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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