The Sun, our star, sentence 1
It is a gigantic ball of hot gas: if the Sun were a football, the Earth would be a peppercorn about 25 metres away.
Who acts: Sun, Earth · What happens: be · To what, where: gigantic ball, football, peppercorn
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Sun, our star» of the space 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, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ball | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ball | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ball | det |
| 4 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ball | amod |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gas | case |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gas | amod |
| 8 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ball | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 ball | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 football | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sun | det |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 football | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 football | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 football | det |
| 15 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ball | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 football | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Earth | det |
| 18 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 peppercorn | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 peppercorn | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 peppercorn | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 peppercorn | det |
| 22 | peppercorn | peppercorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ball | parataxis |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 25 | advmod |
| 24 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 metres | nummod |
| 25 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 away | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 peppercorn | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ball | 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 | is a | present | Sun | a gigantic ball | of hot gas | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | the Sun | a football | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | would | the Earth | a peppercorn | away 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:space:001-the-sun-our-star.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×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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