Jupiter's moons, sentence 16

In the 1600s the regular eclipses of Jupiter's moons were used as a clock in the sky to work out longitude, how far east or west you are, on land.

Who acts: you · What happens: use, work out, be, eclipse · To what, where: regular eclipses, 1600s, longitude, land, moons

This is a sentence of the lesson «Jupiter's moons» 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 (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	In	in	ADP	_	3 1600s	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 1600s	det
3	1600s	1600	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Digit	12 used	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eclipses	det
5	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eclipses	amod
6	eclipses	eclipse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 moons	case
8	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 moons	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Jupiter	case
10	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eclipses	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 used	aux:pass
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 clock	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 clock	det
15	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 used	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 sky	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sky	det
18	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clock	nmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 work	mark
20	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 work	compound:prt
22	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 work	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 east	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 far	advmod
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 east	advmod
26	east	east	ADV	_	33 land	advmod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 west	cc
28	west	west	ADV	_	26 east	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 land	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 land	cop
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 land	punct
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 land	case
33	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 longitude	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		the regular eclipses of Jupiter's moons	the 1600s	as a clock in the sky	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as clock=Attribute
2	work out	to-infinitive		longitude			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longitude=Topic
3	is	present	you		land	east property	tree rules
4	eclipse			Jupiter's moons			nom eclipse «event transitive»: of=patient

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:011-jupiters-moons.lesson:16.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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