Jupiter's moons, sentence 4

Their eclipses, as they slip into Jupiter's shadow, happen so regularly that in the 1600s people used them as a clock in the sky to find their longitude.

Who acts: Io, eclipses, people, Jupiter · What happens: slip, happen, use, find, eclipse, shadow · To what, where: shadow, Io, 1600s, longitude

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 (Io, eclipses, people, Jupiter), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eclipses	nmod:poss
2	eclipses	eclipse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 happen	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 happen	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 slip	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slip	nsubj
6	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 happen	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 shadow	case
8	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 shadow	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Jupiter	case
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slip	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 slip	punct
12	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 regularly	advmod
14	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	12 happen	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 used	mark
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 1600s	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 1600s	det
18	1600s	1600	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	20 used	obl
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 used	nsubj
20	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 happen	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 used	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 clock	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 clock	det
24	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 used	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 sky	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sky	det
27	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clock	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 find	mark
29	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 used	advcl
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 longitude	nmod:poss
31	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 find	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 happen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slip	present	Io		Jupiter's shadow		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	happen	present	Io's eclipses			regularly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use	participle	people	Io	the 1600s	as a clock in the sky	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Duration as clock=Attribute
4	find	to-infinitive	people not said here	Io's longitude			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longitude=Topic
5	eclipse		Io				nom eclipse «event transitive»: poss=agent
6	shadow		Jupiter				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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:space:011-jupiters-moons.lesson:4.

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, R6-punct-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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