Saturn and its rings, sentence 15
Saturn takes about 29.5 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and its winds reach about 1,800 kilometres per hour, many times faster than the strongest hurricanes on Earth, which reach about 300.
Who acts: Saturn, winds, strongest hurricanes, Sun · What happens: take, orbit, reach, wind · To what, where: Sun, 1,800 kilometres, 300
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 (Saturn, winds, strongest hurricanes, Sun), 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 | Saturn | Saturn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 29.5 | advmod |
| 4 | 29.5 | 29.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 5 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 years | compound |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 takes | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 orbit | mark |
| 8 | orbit | orbit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 takes | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 orbit | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reach | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reach | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 winds | nmod:poss |
| 14 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reach | nsubj |
| 15 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 1,800 | advmod |
| 17 | 1,800 | 1,800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 kilometres | nummod |
| 18 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reach | obj |
| 19 | per | per | ADP | _ | 20 hour | case |
| 20 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kilometres | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 faster | punct |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 times | amod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 faster | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 takes | advcl |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 hurricanes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hurricanes | det |
| 27 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 hurricanes | amod |
| 28 | hurricanes | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 faster | obl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 Earth | case |
| 30 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 hurricanes | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 reach | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 reach | nsubj |
| 33 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hurricanes | acl:relcl |
| 34 | about | about | ADV | _ | 35 300 | advmod |
| 35 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 reach | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Saturn | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | orbit | to-infinitive | Saturn not said here | the Sun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | present | Sun's winds | 1,800 kilometres | per hour | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme | |||
| 4 | reach | present | the strongest hurricanes on Earth | 300 | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 300=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wind | Sun | nom wind «phenomenon 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:012-saturn-and-its-rings.lesson:15.
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 ×3. 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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