How stars die, sentence 6
In about 5 billion years the Sun will become a red giant, swallowing Mercury and Venus and possibly the Earth.
Who acts: Sun, red giant · What happens: become, swallow · To what, where: red giant, Mercury
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 (Sun, red giant), 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 | _ | 5 years | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 billion | advmod |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 billion | compound |
| 4 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 become | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 become | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 giant | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 giant | amod |
| 12 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swallowing | punct |
| 14 | swallowing | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 giant | acl |
| 15 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 swallowing | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Venus | cc |
| 17 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Mercury | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Earth | cc |
| 19 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 21 Earth | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Earth | det |
| 21 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Mercury | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 become | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | future | the Sun | a red giant | year | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | swallow | gerund | a red giant not said here | Mercury and Venus and the Earth | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercury=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: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.
See the release 0.4.
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