Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, sentence 8

In the morning the Sun is in the east, so shadows point west; at midday in Britain the Sun is in the south, so shadows point north; in the evening they point east.

Who acts: Sun, shadows · What happens: be, point · To what, where: east, south

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 (Sun, shadows), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 east	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 east	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 east	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 east	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 east	det
9	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 point	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 point	advmod
12	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 point	nsubj
13	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 east	conj
14	west	west	ADV	_	13 point	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 midday	punct
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 midday	case
17	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 east	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 Britain	case
19	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 midday	nmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sun	det
21	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Britain	appos
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 south	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 south	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 south	det
25	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 east	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 point	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 point	advmod
28	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 point	nsubj
29	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 south	parataxis
30	north	north	ADV	_	29 point	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 point	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 evening	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 evening	det
34	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 point	obl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 point	nsubj
36	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 point	conj
37	east	east	ADV	_	36 point	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 east	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun	the east and midday in Britain	morning		tree rules
2	point	present	shadows			west property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present		the south			tree rules
4	point	present	shadows			north property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	point	present	shadows = shadow		evening	east property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: 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:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.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): R7-rel-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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