Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 11

The Moon looks bigger near the horizon, but a coin held at arm's length, or a photo, shows it is the same size.

Who acts: Moon, coin · What happens: look, hold, show, be · To what, where: coin, length, same size · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» 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 (Moon, coin), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 looks	xcomp
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 horizon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horizon	det
7	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 held	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 held	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 coin	det
11	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	nsubj:pass
12	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 looks	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 length	case
14	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 length	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 arm	case
16	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 photo	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 photo	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 photo	det
20	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 length	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shows	punct
22	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 size	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 size	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 size	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 size	amod
27	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shows	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	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	look	present	the Moon			big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	hold	participle · passive		a coin	arm's length or a photo		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at length=Location
3	show	present	the Moon not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	coin	the same size			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:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:11.

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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