The Moon, the planets and the stars, sentence 5

Each sensible guess can be checked: shooting stars are space pebbles burning in our air, Sirius outshines Polaris, and Venus is hotter than Mercury because its thick air traps the heat.

Who acts: shooting stars, space pebbles, Sirius, Venus, thick air · What happens: check, be, burn, outshine, trap · To what, where: sensible guess, space pebbles, air, Polaris, heat

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 (shooting stars, space pebbles, Sirius, Venus), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 guess	det
2	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guess	amod
3	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 checked	nsubj:pass
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 checked	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 checked	aux:pass
6	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 pebbles	punct
8	shooting	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stars	compound
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pebbles	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pebbles	cop
11	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pebbles	compound
12	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 checked	parataxis
13	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 pebbles	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 air	nmod:poss
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burning	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 outshines	punct
18	Sirius	Sirius	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 outshines	nsubj
19	outshines	outshine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pebbles	conj
20	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 outshines	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hotter	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hotter	cc
23	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 hotter	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hotter	cop
25	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 outshines	conj
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 Mercury	case
27	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 hotter	obl
28	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	32 traps	mark
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 air	nmod:poss
30	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 air	amod
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 traps	nsubj
32	traps	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hotter	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 heat	det
34	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 traps	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 checked	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	check	can · passive		each sensible guess			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	present	shooting stars	space pebbles			tree rules
3	burn	gerund	space pebbles not said here		our air		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
4	outshine	present	Sirius	Polaris			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot polaris=Theme
5	is	present	Venus			than Mercury; hot property	tree rules
6	trap	present	guess's thick air	the heat			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient

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: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): R2-punct-next ×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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