Uranus and Neptune, sentence 3
Neptune was found with a pencil before a telescope: mathematicians saw Uranus being tugged off course, worked out where the hidden planet must be, and astronomers found it there in 1846.
Who acts: mathematicians, hidden planet, astronomers · What happens: find, see, tug, work out, be · To what, where: Neptune, Uranus, planet, 1846 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Uranus and Neptune» 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 (mathematicians, hidden planet, astronomers), 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 | Neptune | Neptune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux:pass |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 pencil | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pencil | det |
| 6 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 telescope | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 telescope | det |
| 9 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | mathematicians | mathematician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | parataxis |
| 13 | Uranus | Uranus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tugged | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 tugged | aux:pass |
| 15 | tugged | tug | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 tugged | obl |
| 17 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 off | fixed |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 worked | punct |
| 19 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 worked | compound:prt |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 worked | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 planet | det |
| 23 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 planet | amod |
| 24 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 where | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 where | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 where | cop |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 found | cc |
| 29 | astronomers | astronomer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 worked | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | obj |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 found | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 1846 | case |
| 34 | 1846 | 1846 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 found | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | Neptune | before a telescope | with a pencil | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | see | past | mathematicians | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tug | gerund · passive | Uranus | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | work out | past | mathematicians not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | must | the hidden planet | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find | past | astronomers | planet | 1846; there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:014-uranus-and-neptune.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 ×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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