The Sun, our star, sentence 8
The Earth is about 150 million kilometres from the Sun, and sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach us.
Who acts: Earth, sunlight · What happens: be, take, reach · To what, where: million kilometres, Sun, us
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 (Earth, sunlight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kilometres | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kilometres | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 million | advmod |
| 5 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 million | compound |
| 6 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 kilometres | nummod |
| 7 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kilometres | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 takes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 takes | cc |
| 13 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 takes | nsubj |
| 14 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kilometres | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 8 | advmod |
| 16 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 minutes | nummod |
| 17 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 takes | obj |
| 18 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 seconds | nummod |
| 19 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 takes | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 reach | mark |
| 21 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 takes | advcl |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 reach | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kilometres | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Earth | million kilometres | the Sun | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | present | sunlight | minute; second | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | sunlight not said here | us | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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: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): R5-strong ×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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