The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky, sentence 11

The Andromeda Galaxy, about 2.5 million light years away, is the farthest thing most people can see with the naked eye, a faint smudge in autumn skies.

Who acts: Andromeda Galaxy, most people · What happens: be, see · To what, where: farthest thing

This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky» 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 (Andromeda Galaxy, most people), 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 Galaxy	det
2	Andromeda	Andromeda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Galaxy	compound
3	Galaxy	galaxy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 thing	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 years	punct
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 million	advmod
6	2.5	2.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 million	compound
7	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 years	compound
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Galaxy	parataxis
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 years	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Galaxy	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 thing	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 see	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thing	acl:relcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 eye	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 eye	det
22	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eye	amod
23	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 smudge	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 smudge	det
26	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 smudge	amod
27	smudge	smudge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thing	appos
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 skies	case
29	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 skies	compound
30	skies	sky	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 smudge	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 thing	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	is a	present	the Andromeda Galaxy	the farthest thing					tree rules
2	see	can	most people	the farthest thing not said here				with the naked eye	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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:021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.lesson:11.

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): R8-pos-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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