Saturn's moons, sentence 4
Other moons are odd too: Mimas looks like the Death Star, Iapetus is half black and half white, Hyperion is a tumbling sponge, and tiny shepherd moons herd the ice of the rings.
Who acts: Other moons, Mimas, Iapetus, Hyperion, tiny shepherd moons · What happens: be, look, tumble, herd · To what, where: tumbling sponge, ice
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 (Other moons, Mimas, Iapetus, Hyperion), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moons | amod |
| 2 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 odd | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 odd | cop |
| 4 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 odd | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 looks | punct |
| 7 | Mimas | Mimas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looks | nsubj |
| 8 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 odd | parataxis |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 Star | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Star | det |
| 11 | Death | Death | PROPN | _ | 12 Star | compound |
| 12 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looks | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Star | punct |
| 14 | Iapetus | Iapetus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 half | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 half | cop |
| 16 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 looks | parataxis |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 half | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 white | cc |
| 19 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 white | advmod |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 black | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sponge | punct |
| 22 | Hyperion | Hyperion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sponge | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sponge | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sponge | det |
| 25 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 sponge | amod |
| 26 | sponge | sponge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 half | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 herd | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 herd | cc |
| 29 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 moons | amod |
| 30 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 moons | compound |
| 31 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 herd | nsubj |
| 32 | herd | herd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sponge | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ice | det |
| 34 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 herd | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 rings | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 rings | det |
| 37 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 ice | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 odd | 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 | Other moons | odd property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | Mimas | like the Death Star | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Iapetus | half property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Iapetus not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | tumble | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | Hyperion | a tumbling sponge | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | herd | present | tiny shepherd moons | the ice of the rings | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ice=Patient |
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:4.
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, 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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