How the Solar System was born, sentence 9

In the disc, dust grains stuck together into pebbles, then rocks, then bodies kilometres wide called planetesimals, which crashed and merged into planets.

Who acts: dust grains, bodies, planetesimals · What happens: stick together, call, crash, merge · To what, where: disc, planetesimals · 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 (dust grains, bodies, planetesimals), 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	_	3 disc	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 disc	det
3	disc	disc	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grains	punct
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grains	compound
6	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stuck	nsubj
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 stuck	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 pebbles	case
10	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stuck	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 disc	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 rocks	advmod
13	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pebbles	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bodies	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 bodies	advmod
16	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pebbles	conj
17	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wide	obl
18	wide	wide	ADV	_	16 bodies	advmod
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 bodies	acl
20	planetesimals	planetesimal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crashed	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 crashed	nsubj
23	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 planetesimals	acl:relcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 merged	cc
25	merged	merge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 crashed	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 planets	case
27	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 merged	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stick together	past	dust grains		the disc	into pebbles and rocks and bodies; together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in disc=Destination
2	call	participle	bodies not said here	planetesimals			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	crash	past	planetesimals				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	merge	past	planetesimals not said here			into planets	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into planet=Co-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:9.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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