The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky, sentence 15

There is no bright south pole star, so southern observers find south using the long arm of the Southern Cross and the two Pointers, Alpha and Beta Centauri.

Who acts: bright pole star, southern observers · What happens: be, find, use · To what, where: long arm

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 (bright pole star, southern observers), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 star	det
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 star	amod
5	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pole	compound
6	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 star	compound
7	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 find	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 find	advmod
10	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 observers	amod
11	observers	observer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 find	nsubj
12	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
13	south	south	ADV	_	14 using	advmod
14	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 find	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 arm	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 arm	amod
17	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 using	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Cross	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Cross	det
20	Southern	Southern	PROPN	_	21 Cross	flat
21	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 arm	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Pointers	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Pointers	det
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 Pointers	nummod
25	Pointers	pointer	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Cross	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Alpha	punct
27	Alpha	Alpha	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Pointers	appos
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Beta	cc
29	Beta	Beta	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Alpha	conj
30	Centauri	Centauri	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Beta	flat
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no bright pole star		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	present	southern observers				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	use	gerund	southern observers not said here	the long arm of the Southern Cross and the two Pointers		south property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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:021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.lesson:15.

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 ×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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