Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, sentence 2

Some sky puzzles hide a famous myth: the seasons are not caused by the Earth coming nearer to the Sun, because we are nearest in January, in the middle of the northern winter.

Who acts: sky puzzles, Earth, we · What happens: hide, not cause, come, be · To what, where: famous myth, seasons

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» 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 (sky puzzles, Earth, we), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 puzzles	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puzzles	compound
3	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hide	nsubj
4	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 myth	det
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 myth	amod
7	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 caused	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seasons	det
10	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 caused	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 caused	aux:pass
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 caused	advmod
13	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 myth	appos
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 Earth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Earth	det
16	Earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caused	obl
17	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 Earth	acl
18	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 coming	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Sun	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sun	det
21	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 nearer	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nearest	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 nearest	mark
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 nearest	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 nearest	cop
26	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 caused	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 January	case
28	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 nearest	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 middle	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 middle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 middle	det
32	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caused	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 winter	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 winter	det
35	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 winter	amod
36	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 middle	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hide	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	some sky puzzles	a famous myth			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Patient
2	not cause	present · passive	the Earth	the seasons			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
3	come	gerund	the Earth not said here			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	we		january	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:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:2.

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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