Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 5

Winter is cold because the Earth is tilted, so the light comes in low and slanted, spread thinly, and the days are short.

Who acts: Winter, light, days · What happens: be, tilt, come in, spread · To what, where: Earth

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, light, days), 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	3 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 tilted	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tilted	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tilted	aux:pass
8	tilted	tilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cold	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 comes	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 comes	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	nsubj
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tilted	conj
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 comes	advmod
15	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 comes	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 slanted	cc
17	slanted	slanted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 low	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spread	punct
19	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 comes	advcl
20	thinly	thinly	ADV	_	19 spread	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 short	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 short	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 days	det
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 short	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 short	cop
26	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cold	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cold	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Winter		cold property	tree rules
2	tilt	present · passive		the Earth		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	come in	present	the light		low property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spread	participle	the light not said here		thinly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	the days		short 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: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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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