Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, sentence 9
Meteor showers happen on about the same dates each year when the Earth passes through a trail of dust left by a comet, such as the Perseids around 12 August from comet Swift-Tuttle.
Who acts: Meteor showers, Earth · What happens: happen, pass, leave · To what, where: same dates, trail, dust
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 (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 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 dates | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 dates | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dates | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dates | amod |
| 8 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happen | obl |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 passes | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Earth | det |
| 13 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 passes | nsubj |
| 14 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 trail | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 trail | det |
| 17 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passes | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 dust | case |
| 19 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trail | nmod |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 dust | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 comet | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 comet | det |
| 23 | comet | comet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl:agent |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Perseids | punct |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 28 Perseids | case |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 such | fixed |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Perseids | det |
| 28 | Perseids | Perseid | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 trail | nmod |
| 29 | around | around | ADV | _ | 31 August | advmod |
| 30 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 August | nummod |
| 31 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Perseids | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 comet | case |
| 33 | comet | comet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Perseids | nmod |
| 34 | Swift | Swift | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 comet | appos |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Tuttle | punct |
| 36 | Tuttle | Tuttle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Swift | flat |
| 37 | . | . | 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 | the same dates | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on date=Location | |||
| 2 | pass | present | the Earth | a trail of dust such the Perseids 12 August from comet | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through trail=Location | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | 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:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.lesson:9.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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