Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets, sentence 10
In 2019 New Horizons flew past Arrokoth, a Kuiper belt object shaped like a snowman, the most distant object ever explored up close.
Who acts: New Horizons · What happens: fly, shape, explore · To what, where: 2019, Kuiper belt object, distant object
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets» 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 (New Horizons), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2019 | case |
| 2 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 flew | obl |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 4 Horizons | compound |
| 4 | Horizons | Horizons | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | past | past | ADP | _ | 7 Arrokoth | case |
| 7 | Arrokoth | Arrokoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 object | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 object | det |
| 10 | Kuiper | Kuiper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 object | compound |
| 11 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 object | compound |
| 12 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Arrokoth | appos |
| 13 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 object | acl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 snowman | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 snowman | det |
| 16 | snowman | snowman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaped | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 explored | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 object | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 distant | advmod |
| 20 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 object | amod |
| 21 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Arrokoth | appos |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 explored | advmod |
| 23 | explored | explore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 object | acl |
| 24 | up | up | ADV | _ | 25 close | advmod |
| 25 | close | close | ADV | _ | 23 explored | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | New Horizons | 2019 | past Arrokoth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 2019=Location | |||
| 2 | shape | participle | a Kuiper belt object not said here | like a snowman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | explore | participle | the distant object not said here | ever | close property | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=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:015-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets.lesson:10.
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): no change. 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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