Day and night, and the Moon's faces, sentence 0
The Sun seems to climb up in the east and sink in the west, but it is really the Earth spinning towards the east, carrying you round like a passenger on a smooth, silent roundabout.
Who acts: Sun, Earth · What happens: seem, climb up, sink, be, spin, carry · To what, where: east, west, Earth, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night, and the Moon's faces» of the physics 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 climb | mark |
| 5 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seems | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 climb | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 east | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 east | det |
| 9 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climb | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sink | cc |
| 11 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 climb | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 west | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 west | det |
| 14 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sink | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Earth | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 Earth | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 Earth | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Earth | cop |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 Earth | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Earth | det |
| 21 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seems | conj |
| 22 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 Earth | acl |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 25 east | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 east | det |
| 25 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spinning | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 carrying | punct |
| 27 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 spinning | advcl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 carrying | obj |
| 29 | round | round | ADV | _ | 27 carrying | advmod |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 passenger | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 passenger | det |
| 32 | passenger | passenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carrying | obl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 roundabout | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 roundabout | det |
| 35 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 roundabout | amod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 smooth | punct |
| 37 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 roundabout | amod |
| 38 | roundabout | roundabout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 passenger | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the Sun | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | climb up | to-infinitive | the Sun not said here | the east | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in east=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | sink | infinitive | the Sun not said here | the west | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | Sun | the Earth | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spin | gerund | the Earth not said here | the east | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards east=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | carry | gerund | the Earth not said here | you | like a passenger on a smooth silent roundabout; round property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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:physics:039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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