Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, sentence 13

In February 2021 a meteorite fell on a driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, and was picked up within hours, one of the freshest carbon-rich meteorites ever found.

Who acts: meteorite · What happens: fall, pick up, find · To what, where: driveway, freshest carbon rich meteorites

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 (meteorite), 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 February	case
2	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
3	2021	2021	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 February	nmod:unmarked
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meteorite	det
5	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 driveway	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 driveway	det
9	driveway	driveway	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Winchcombe	case
11	Winchcombe	Winchcombe	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 driveway	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Gloucestershire	punct
13	Gloucestershire	Gloucestershire	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Winchcombe	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 picked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 picked	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 picked	aux:pass
17	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fell	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 picked	compound:prt
19	within	within	ADP	_	20 hours	case
20	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 picked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 meteorite	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	29 meteorites	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 meteorites	det
25	freshest	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 meteorites	amod
26	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meteorites	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 meteorites	punct
28	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 meteorites	amod
29	meteorites	meteorite	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 one	nmod
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 found	advmod
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 meteorites	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fall	past	a meteorite		a driveway in Winchcombe	february	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on driveway=Location
2	pick up	past · passive	a meteorite not said here			hour	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»
3	find	participle		the freshest carbon rich meteorites not said here		ever	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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:13.

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, 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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