The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky, sentence 3
Picture a cousin in Sydney and you in Leeds looking up on the same night: you see the Plough, she sees the Southern Cross, because you stand on different sides of the round Earth.
Who acts: you, line · What happens: picture, look up, see, stand · To what, where: cousin, Sydney, Plough, Southern Cross, different sides
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 (you, line), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cousin | det |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Sydney | case |
| 5 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cousin | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 you | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 cousin | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Leeds | case |
| 9 | Leeds | leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 you | nmod |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 you | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 looking | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 night | amod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Plough | det |
| 20 | Plough | Plough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sees | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sees | nsubj |
| 23 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Cross | det |
| 25 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 26 Cross | compound |
| 26 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sees | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stand | punct |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 stand | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 stand | nsubj |
| 30 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 sides | case |
| 32 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 sides | amod |
| 33 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 stand | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Earth | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Earth | det |
| 36 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Earth | amod |
| 37 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 sides | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a cousin | Sydney | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cousin=Theme | |||
| 2 | look up | gerund | night | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | present | you | the Plough | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plough=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | present | line | the Southern Cross | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | stand | present | you | different sides of the round Earth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
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: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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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