Day and night, and the Moon's faces, sentence 8
At the equator the ground moves at about 1,600 kilometres an hour, but we feel nothing because the motion is smooth.
Who acts: ground, we, motion · What happens: move, feel, be · To what, where: equator, nothing
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 (ground, we, motion), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 equator | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 equator | det |
| 3 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moves | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moves | nsubj |
| 6 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 kilometres | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 1,600 | advmod |
| 9 | 1,600 | 1,600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 kilometres | nummod |
| 10 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 moves | obl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hour | det |
| 12 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kilometres | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feel | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 feel | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 feel | nsubj |
| 16 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 moves | conj |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 feel | obj |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 smooth | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 motion | det |
| 20 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 smooth | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 smooth | cop |
| 22 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feel | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the ground | the equator | at 1,600 kilometres a hour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at equator=Source at kilometre=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | feel | present | we | nothing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the motion | smooth 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:physics:039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.lesson:8.
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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