Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, sentence 6

A piece of space rock is a meteoroid while in space, a meteor while it glows in the air, and a meteorite if any of it lands on the ground.

Who acts: piece, any · What happens: be, glow, land · To what, where: meteoroid, air, ground

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 (piece, any), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meteoroid	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rock	case
4	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rock	compound
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meteoroid	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meteoroid	det
8	meteoroid	meteoroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 space	mark
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 space	case
11	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meteoroid	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 meteor	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 meteor	det
14	meteor	meteor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meteoroid	conj
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 glows	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 glows	nsubj
17	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 meteor	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 glows	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 meteorite	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 meteorite	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 meteorite	det
24	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meteoroid	conj
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 lands	mark
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 lands	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 any	nmod
29	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 meteorite	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 ground	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ground	det
32	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lands	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 meteoroid	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	a piece of space rock	a meteoroid and a meteor and a meteorite		tree rules
2	glow	present	piece		the air	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
3	land a condition, not said to happen	present	any		the ground	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on ground=Destination

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:6.

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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