How the Solar System was born, sentence 0
About 4.6 billion years ago there was no Sun and no Earth, only a huge, cold cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula.
Who acts: Sun, huge cold cloud · What happens: be, call, cloud · To what, where: solar nebula, gas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How the Solar System was born» 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, huge cold cloud), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 billion | advmod |
| 2 | 4.6 | 4.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 billion | compound |
| 3 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 was | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 Sun | det |
| 9 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Earth | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 Earth | det |
| 12 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sun | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cloud | punct |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 cloud | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cloud | det |
| 16 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cloud | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 huge | punct |
| 18 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cloud | amod |
| 19 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Sun | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gas | case |
| 21 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cloud | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dust | cc |
| 23 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gas | conj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 cloud | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 nebula | det |
| 26 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 nebula | amod |
| 27 | nebula | nebula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 called | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no Sun and no Earth | there | ago property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a huge cold cloud of gas and dust not said here | the solar nebula | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nebula=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | cloud | gas and dust | nom cloud «phenomenon 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:002-how-the-solar-system-was-born.lesson:0.
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, 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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