Saturn and its rings, sentence 13
Scientists still argue about whether Saturn's rings are young or as old as Saturn itself.
Who acts: Scientists, rings · What happens: argue, be
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 (Scientists, rings), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 argue | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 argue | advmod |
| 3 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 young | mark |
| 5 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 young | mark |
| 6 | Saturn | Saturn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Saturn | case |
| 8 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 young | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 young | cop |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 argue | advcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 old | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 old | advmod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 young | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 Saturn | case |
| 15 | Saturn | Saturn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 old | obl |
| 16 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 Saturn | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 argue | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | Scientists | still | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Saturn's rings | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Saturn's rings not said here | as Saturn planet | 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:012-saturn-and-its-rings.lesson:13.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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