Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 10
Betelgeuse, Sirius and Procyon form the Winter Triangle, a large shape of three bright stars in the winter evening sky; it is not one of the 88 constellations but a shape made by stars from three of them.
Who acts: Betelgeuse, Triangle · What happens: form, not be, make · To what, where: Winter Triangle, one, shape, three
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 (Betelgeuse, Triangle), 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 | Betelgeuse | Betelgeuse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 form | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sirius | punct |
| 3 | Sirius | Sirius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Betelgeuse | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 form | cc |
| 5 | Procyon | procyon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | compound |
| 6 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Triangle | det |
| 8 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Triangle | compound |
| 9 | Triangle | Triangle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 form | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shape | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shape | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shape | amod |
| 13 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Triangle | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 stars | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 stars | nummod |
| 16 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stars | amod |
| 17 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shape | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sky | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sky | det |
| 20 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 evening | compound |
| 21 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sky | compound |
| 22 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stars | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 one | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 one | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 one | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 one | advmod |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 form | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 constellations | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 constellations | det |
| 30 | 88 | 88 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 constellations | nummod |
| 31 | constellations | constellation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 one | nmod |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 shape | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 shape | det |
| 34 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 constellations | conj |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 shape | acl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 stars | case |
| 37 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 made | obl:agent |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 three | case |
| 39 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 made | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 three | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | Betelgeuse and Sirius | the Winter Triangle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location triangle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | Triangle | one | of the 88 constellations but a shape | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | participle | a shape not said here | three of stars | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from three=Material |
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:020-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring.lesson:10.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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