Saturn's moons, sentence 16

Small moons such as Prometheus and Pandora shepherd the narrow F ring, keeping its ice in a thin, sharp-edged band as sheepdogs keep sheep together.

Who acts: Small moons, sheepdogs · What happens: shepherd, keep, edge · To what, where: narrow F ring, ice, thin sharp edged band, sheep

This is a sentence of the lesson «Saturn'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 (Small moons, sheepdogs), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 moons	amod
2	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shepherd	nsubj
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	5 Prometheus	case
4	as	as	ADP	_	3 such	fixed
5	Prometheus	prometheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moons	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Pandora	cc
7	Pandora	pandora	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Prometheus	conj
8	shepherd	shepherd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ring	det
10	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ring	amod
11	F	f	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ring	compound
12	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shepherd	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keeping	punct
14	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 shepherd	advcl
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ice	nmod:poss
16	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keeping	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	24 band	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 band	det
19	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 band	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thin	punct
21	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 band	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 sharp	punct
23	edged	edge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 band	amod
24	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keeping	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 keep	mark
26	sheepdogs	sheepdog	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 keep	nsubj
27	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 keeping	advcl
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 keep	obj
29	together	together	ADV	_	27 keep	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shepherd	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shepherd	present	Small moons such Prometheus and Pandora	the narrow F ring			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
2	keep	gerund	Small moons such Prometheus and Pandora not said here	sponge's ice	a thin sharp edged band		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ice=Theme in band=Location
3	edge	participle					vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
4	keep	present	sheepdogs	sheep		together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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:013-saturns-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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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