Seasons and tides, sentence 6
Seasons are not caused by distance from the Sun; the Earth is nearest to the Sun in January.
Who acts: distance, Earth · What happens: not cause, be · To what, where: Seasons
This is a sentence of the lesson «Seasons and tides» 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 (distance, 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 | Seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 caused | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 caused | advmod |
| 4 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 distance | case |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caused | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sun | det |
| 9 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 distance | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 caused | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Earth | det |
| 12 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 nearest | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nearest | cop |
| 14 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 caused | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Sun | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sun | det |
| 17 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 nearest | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 January | case |
| 19 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 nearest | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caused | 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 | not cause | present · passive | distance from the Sun | Seasons | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Earth | january | to the Sun; near 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:040-seasons-and-tides.lesson:6.
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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