Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, sentence 11
The meteors of a shower seem to fly out from one point in the sky, called the radiant, though they can streak across any part of the sky, and the shower is named after the constellation, the named star pattern, where that point lies.
Who acts: meteors, showers, point · What happens: seem, fly out, call, streak, name, lie · To what, where: one point, radiant, part, shower · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» 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 (meteors, showers, point), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 meteors | det |
| 2 | meteors | meteor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 shower | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shower | det |
| 5 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meteors | nmod |
| 6 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fly | mark |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seem | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 fly | compound:prt |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 point | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 point | nummod |
| 12 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fly | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sky | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sky | det |
| 15 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 point | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fly | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 radiant | det |
| 19 | radiant | radiant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 streak | punct |
| 21 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 streak | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 streak | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 streak | aux |
| 24 | streak | streak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 called | advcl |
| 25 | across | across | ADP | _ | 27 part | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 part | det |
| 27 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 streak | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sky | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sky | det |
| 30 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 part | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 named | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 named | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shower | det |
| 34 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 named | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 named | aux:pass |
| 36 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 seem | conj |
| 37 | after | after | ADP | _ | 39 constellation | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 constellation | det |
| 39 | constellation | constellation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 named | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 pattern | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 pattern | det |
| 42 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 pattern | amod |
| 43 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pattern | compound |
| 44 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 constellation | appos |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 point | punct |
| 46 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 lies | advmod |
| 47 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 point | det |
| 48 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 lies | nsubj |
| 49 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 pattern | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seem | 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 | seem | present | the meteors of a shower | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | fly out | to-infinitive | the meteors of a shower not said here | one point in the sky | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from point=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | call | past | the meteors of a shower not said here | the radiant | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent radiant=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | streak | can | showers = shower | any part of the sky | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across part=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | name | present · passive | the shower | after the constellation | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | name | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | lie | present | that point | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.lesson:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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