Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 4
Winter isn't cold because the Sun is far away: the Earth is actually closest to the Sun in early January!
Who acts: Winter, Sun, Earth · What happens: not be, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» 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 (Winter, Sun, 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 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cold | advmod |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 away | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 away | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 away | cop |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 cold | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 closest | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Earth | det |
| 13 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 closest | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 closest | cop |
| 15 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 16 closest | advmod |
| 16 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 cold | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Sun | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sun | det |
| 19 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 closest | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 January | case |
| 21 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 January | amod |
| 22 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 closest | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Winter | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Sun | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the Earth | january | to the Sun; actually, close property | 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:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:4.
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): no change. 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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