Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 3

All year from Britain or Canada the Plough never sets, and its two Pointers lead to Polaris, the Pole Star, almost still above due north, with the W of Cassiopeia on the other side.

Who acts: Plough, two Pointers · What happens: not set, lead, point · To what, where: Polaris

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 (Plough, two Pointers), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sets	obl:unmarked
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Britain	case
4	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 year	nmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 Canada	cc
6	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Britain	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Plough	det
8	Plough	Plough	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sets	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 sets	advmod
10	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lead	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lead	cc
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Pointers	nmod:poss
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Pointers	nummod
15	Pointers	pointer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lead	nsubj
16	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sets	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Polaris	case
18	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 lead	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Star	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Star	det
21	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Star	compound
22	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Polaris	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 due	punct
24	almost	almost	ADV	_	27 due	advmod
25	still	still	ADV	_	27 due	advmod
26	above	above	ADV	_	27 due	advmod
27	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 sets	conj
28	north	north	ADV	_	27 due	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 W	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 W	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 W	det
32	W	W	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 due	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Cassiopeia	case
34	Cassiopeia	Cassiopeia	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 W	nmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 side	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 side	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 side	amod
38	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 due	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	not set	present	the Plough		year	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	lead	present	Plough's two Pointers	Polaris		vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to polaris=Patient
3	point		Plough			nom pointer «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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:3.

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 ×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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