Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 14

Since 2006 astronomers have called Pluto a dwarf planet, though some scientists still argue about the definition.

Who acts: astronomers, scientists · What happens: call, argue · To what, where: Pluto · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» 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 (astronomers, scientists), 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	Since	since	ADP	_	2 2006	case
2	2006	2006	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 called	obl
3	astronomers	astronomer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 called	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 called	aux
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 planet	det
8	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 planet	amod
9	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 argue	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 argue	mark
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 scientists	det
13	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 argue	nsubj
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 argue	advmod
15	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 called	advcl
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 definition	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 definition	det
18	definition	definition	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 argue	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · perfect	astronomers		Pluto		since 2006		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pluto=Recipient
2	argue speech: disagree	present	some scientists				still	about the definition	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about definition=Topic

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:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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): 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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