How the Solar System was born, sentence 5
The Solar System formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a huge cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula, which collapsed under its own gravity.
Who acts: Solar System, huge cloud, solar nebula · What happens: form, call, collapse, cloud · To what, where: huge cloud, solar nebula, own gravity, 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 (Solar System, huge cloud, solar nebula), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 System | det |
| 2 | Solar | solar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 System | compound |
| 3 | System | System | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | nsubj |
| 4 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 billion | advmod |
| 6 | 4.6 | 4.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 billion | compound |
| 7 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 formed | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 cloud | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cloud | det |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloud | amod |
| 13 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gas | case |
| 15 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cloud | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dust | cc |
| 17 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gas | conj |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 cloud | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 nebula | det |
| 20 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 nebula | amod |
| 21 | nebula | nebula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 collapsed | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 collapsed | nsubj |
| 24 | collapsed | collapse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 nebula | acl:relcl |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 gravity | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 gravity | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 gravity | amod |
| 28 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 collapsed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | the Solar System | a huge cloud of gas and dust | ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a huge cloud of gas and dust not said here | the solar nebula | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | collapse | past | the solar nebula | dust's own gravity | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | 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:5.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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