The Moon, the planets and the stars, sentence 9

Polaris, the North Star, is not the brightest star; Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, and Polaris is useful because it stays almost still above the North Pole.

Who acts: Polaris, Sirius, sky · What happens: not be, be, stay · To what, where: brightest star, night sky, North Pole

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 (Polaris, Sirius, sky), 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	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 star	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Star	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Star	det
4	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Star	compound
5	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Polaris	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Polaris	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 star	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 star	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 star	det
10	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 star	amod
11	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 star	punct
13	Sirius	Sirius	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 star	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 star	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 star	det
16	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 star	amod
17	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 star	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 sky	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sky	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sky	compound
21	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 star	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 useful	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 useful	cc
24	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 useful	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 useful	cop
26	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 star	conj
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 stays	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stays	nsubj
29	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 useful	advcl
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	31 still	advmod
31	still	still	ADV	_	29 stays	advmod
32	above	above	ADP	_	35 Pole	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Pole	det
34	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Pole	compound
35	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 stays	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 star	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Polaris	the brightest star				tree rules
2	is a	present	Sirius	the brightest star	the night sky			tree rules
3	is	present	Polaris				useful property	tree rules
4	stay	present	sky		the North Pole	still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above pole=Location

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: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 ×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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