Day and night, and the Moon's faces, sentence 9

The whole night sky seems to turn round one point because the Earth spins; the North Star sits almost above the North Pole and hardly moves, and sailors used it to find north.

Who acts: whole night sky, Earth, North Star, sailors · What happens: seem, turn round, spin, sit, move, use · To what, where: one point, North Pole, Earth

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 (whole night sky, Earth, North Star, sailors), 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	4 sky	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sky	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sky	compound
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seems	nsubj
5	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 turn	mark
7	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seems	xcomp
8	round	round	ADV	_	10 point	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 point	nummod
10	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 spins	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Earth	det
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 spins	nsubj
14	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sits	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Star	det
17	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Star	compound
18	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sits	nsubj
19	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seems	conj
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 sits	advmod
21	above	above	ADP	_	24 Pole	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Pole	det
23	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Pole	compound
24	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sits	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 moves	cc
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	27 moves	advmod
27	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sits	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 used	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 used	cc
30	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 used	nsubj
31	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 moves	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 used	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 find	mark
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 used	advcl
35	north	north	ADV	_	34 find	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seems	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	present	the whole night sky				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	turn round	to-infinitive	the whole night sky not said here	one point			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	spin	present	the Earth				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	present	the North Star		the North Pole	almost property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above pole=Location
5	move	present	the North Star not said here			hardly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	use	past	sailors	Earth			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	find	to-infinitive	sailors not said here			north property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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:physics:039-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces.lesson:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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