Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 17
Stars twinkle because moving air bends their light; seen from space, above the air, they shine steadily.
Who acts: Stars, moving air · What happens: twinkle, move, bend, see, shine, light · To what, where: light, space
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 (Stars, moving air), 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 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 twinkle | nsubj |
| 2 | twinkle | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 bends | mark |
| 4 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 air | amod |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bends | nsubj |
| 6 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 twinkle | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 light | nmod:poss |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bends | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 shine | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 space | case |
| 12 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 air | punct |
| 14 | above | above | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shine | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shine | nsubj |
| 19 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 twinkle | parataxis |
| 20 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 19 shine | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 twinkle | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twinkle | present | Stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bend | present | moving air | Stars's light | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material | ||||
| 4 | see | participle | Stars = star not said here | space | above the air | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | shine | present | Stars = star | steadily property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | light | Stars = star | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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:17.
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 ×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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