The Sun, our star, sentence 3
Light is fast but the Sun is far, so when you watch a sunset you see the Sun as it was about 8 minutes earlier.
Who acts: Light, Sun, you · What happens: be, watch, see · To what, where: Sun
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 (Light, Sun, you), 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 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fast | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fast | cop |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 far | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun | det |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 far | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 far | cop |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 fast | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 watch | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 watch | advmod |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 watch | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 watch | nsubj |
| 13 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sunset | det |
| 15 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 watch | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fast | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sun | det |
| 19 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 earlier | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 earlier | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 earlier | cop |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 8 | advmod |
| 24 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 minutes | nummod |
| 25 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 earlier | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 see | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fast | 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 | present | Light | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Sun | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | watch | present | you | sunset | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | present | you | the Sun | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Sun | minute | early 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:3.
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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