Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets, sentence 16
Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through trails of dust left by comets, such as the Perseids every August.
Who acts: Meteor showers, Earth · What happens: happen, pass, leave · To what, where: trails
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 (Meteor showers, Earth), 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 | Meteor | meteor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showers | compound |
| 2 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 passes | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Earth | det |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 passes | nsubj |
| 7 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 trails | case |
| 9 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passes | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dust | case |
| 11 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trails | nmod |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 trails | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 comets | case |
| 14 | comets | comet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 left | obl:agent |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Perseids | punct |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 Perseids | case |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 such | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Perseids | det |
| 19 | Perseids | perseid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 comets | nmod |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 August | det |
| 21 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Perseids | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | 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 | happen | present | Meteor showers | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | present | the Earth | trails of dust | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through trail=Location | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | trails of dust not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:015-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets.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 ×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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