How stars die, sentence 13

In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a student from Northern Ireland, discovered pulsars, spinning neutron stars that sweep beams of radio waves past the Earth like a lighthouse.

Who acts: Jocelyn, pulsars, neutron stars · What happens: discover, spin, sweep, beam · To what, where: pulsars, 1967, neutron stars, beams, Earth, radio waves

This is a sentence of the lesson «How stars die» 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 (Jocelyn, pulsars, neutron stars), 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 1967	case
2	1967	1967	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 discovered	obl
3	Jocelyn	Jocelyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 discovered	nsubj
4	Bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Jocelyn	flat
5	Burnell	Burnell	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Jocelyn	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 student	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 student	det
8	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Jocelyn	appos
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 Ireland	case
10	Northern	Northern	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ireland	flat
11	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 student	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pulsars	punct
13	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	pulsars	pulsar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 discovered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spinning	punct
16	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 pulsars	acl
17	neutron	neutron	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stars	compound
18	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spinning	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 sweep	nsubj
20	sweep	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stars	acl:relcl
21	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sweep	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 waves	case
23	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 waves	compound
24	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 beams	nmod
25	past	past	ADP	_	27 Earth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Earth	det
27	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sweep	obl
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 lighthouse	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lighthouse	det
30	lighthouse	lighthouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sweep	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	discover	past	Jocelyn	pulsars	1967		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulsar=Topic
2	spin	gerund	pulsars not said here	neutron stars			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=Theme
3	sweep	present	neutron stars	beams of radio waves	the Earth	like a lighthouse	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent beam=Theme past earth=Trajectory
4	beam			radio waves			nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:019-how-stars-die.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): R5-strong ×2. 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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