Saturn and its rings, sentence 11
Every 13 to 16 years Saturn's rings line up edge-on to the Earth and almost disappear from view, which last happened in March 2025.
Who acts: rings, view · What happens: line up, disappear, happen · To what, where: edge, view
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saturn and its rings» 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 (rings, view), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 years | det |
| 2 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 16 | case |
| 4 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 13 | nmod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 line | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | Saturn | Saturn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Saturn | case |
| 8 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 line | nsubj |
| 9 | line | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 line | compound:prt |
| 11 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 line | obl |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 on | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 edge | compound |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Earth | det |
| 16 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 line | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 disappear | cc |
| 18 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 disappear | advmod |
| 19 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 line | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 view | case |
| 21 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 disappear | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 happened | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 happened | nsubj |
| 24 | last | last | ADV | _ | 25 happened | advmod |
| 25 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 view | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 March | case |
| 27 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 happened | obl |
| 28 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 March | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 line | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | line up | present | Saturn's rings | edge | year | to the Earth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | disappear | present | Saturn's rings not said here | view | almost property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from view=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | happen | past | view | march | last property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:012-saturn-and-its-rings.lesson:11.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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