How the Solar System was born, sentence 2
Most of the gas fell into the middle, which got so hot and squashed that fusion switched on: the Sun was born.
Who acts: Most, middle, fusion · What happens: fall, get, squash, switch on, bear · To what, where: middle, Sun
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 (Most, middle, fusion), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gas | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gas | det |
| 4 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 middle | acl:relcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 hot | advmod |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 got | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 squashed | cc |
| 15 | squashed | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 switched | mark |
| 17 | fusion | fusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 switched | nsubj |
| 18 | switched | switch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 squashed | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 switched | compound:prt |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 born | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sun | det |
| 22 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 born | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 born | aux:pass |
| 24 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 switched | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Most of the gas | into the middle result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into middle=Result | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the middle | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | squash | past | the middle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | switch on | participle | fusion | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | bear | past · passive | the Sun | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:2.
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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