Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 1

The evening sky changes through the year because the Earth goes round the Sun, so at night we face a different part of space each season, like children on a roundabout seeing different faces in the crowd as they go round.

Who acts: evening sky, Earth, we, roundabout, faces · What happens: change, go, face, see, go round · To what, where: Sun, different part, different faces, crowd

This is a sentence of the lesson «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» 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 (evening sky, Earth, we, roundabout), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring/1/