Saturn's moons, sentence 3
Little Enceladus is like a garden sprinkler made of ice: jets of water burst from cracks at its south pole, from an ocean hidden underneath, and the spray feeds one of Saturn's rings.
Who acts: Little Enceladus, jets, spray · What happens: be, make, burst, hide, feed · To what, where: garden sprinkler, cracks, ocean, one
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 (Little Enceladus, jets, spray), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Enceladus | amod |
| 2 | Enceladus | Enceladus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sprinkler | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sprinkler | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 sprinkler | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sprinkler | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprinkler | compound |
| 7 | sprinkler | sprinkler | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sprinkler | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ice | case |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 burst | punct |
| 12 | jets | jet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 burst | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jets | nmod |
| 15 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sprinkler | parataxis |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 cracks | case |
| 17 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 burst | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 pole | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pole | nmod:poss |
| 20 | south | south | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pole | amod |
| 21 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burst | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ocean | punct |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 ocean | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 ocean | det |
| 25 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pole | appos |
| 26 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 ocean | acl |
| 27 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 26 hidden | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 feeds | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 feeds | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 spray | det |
| 31 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 feeds | nsubj |
| 32 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 burst | conj |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 feeds | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 rings | case |
| 35 | Saturn | Saturn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 rings | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 Saturn | case |
| 37 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 one | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sprinkler | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Little Enceladus | like a garden sprinkler | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a garden sprinkler not said here | of ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | burst | present | jets of water | cracks | at water's south pole | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pole=Location | |||
| 4 | hide | participle | a ocean not said here | underneath property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | feed | present | the spray | one of Saturn's rings | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
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:3.
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): R8-pos-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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