The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky, sentence 6

Around midsummer the sky over Britain never gets fully dark, and in Scotland it stays light enough to read outside near midnight.

Who acts: sky · What happens: not get, stay, read · To what, where: midsummer, Scotland

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 (sky), 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	Around	around	ADP	_	2 midsummer	case
2	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	nsubj
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 Britain	case
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sky	nmod
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 gets	advmod
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	fully	fully	ADV	_	10 dark	advmod
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stays	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stays	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Scotland	case
14	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 stays	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stays	nsubj
16	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gets	parataxis
17	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stays	xcomp
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	17 light	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 read	mark
20	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 light	advcl
21	outside	outside	ADV	_	20 read	advmod
22	near	near	ADP	_	23 midnight	case
23	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 read	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	the sky over Britain	midsummer		dark property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around midsummer=Destination
2	stay	present	sky	Scotland		light property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in scotland=Location
3	read	to-infinitive	sky not said here		midnight	outside property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.lesson:6.

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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