The Moon, the planets and the stars, sentence 14

The Moon looks bigger near the horizon, but a photo or a coin at arm's length shows it's the same size; scientists still debate exactly why our brains see it so.

Who acts: Moon, photo, scientists, brains · What happens: look, show, be, debate, see · To what, where: same size, Moon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Moon, photo, scientists, brains), 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 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 looks	xcomp
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 horizon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horizon	det
7	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shows	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 shows	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 photo	det
11	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shows	nsubj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 coin	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 coin	det
14	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 photo	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 length	case
16	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 length	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 arm	case
18	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coin	nmod
19	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 size	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 size	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 size	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 size	amod
24	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shows	ccomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 debate	punct
26	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 debate	nsubj
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 debate	advmod
28	debate	debate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	conj
29	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	30 why	advmod
30	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 see	advmod
31	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brains	nmod:poss
32	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 see	nsubj
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 debate	ccomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 see	obj
35	so	so	ADV	_	33 see	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the Moon			big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	show	present	a photo or a coin at arm's length				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	Moon	the same size			tree rules
4	debate	present	scientists		still		vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	infinitive	our brains	Moon			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:14.

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, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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