Distances and light years, sentence 0

Space is so big that kilometres stop being useful, so astronomers measure it by how far light travels, the fastest thing there is.

Who acts: Space, kilometres, astronomers, light, fastest thing · What happens: be, stop, measure, travel · To what, where: Space

This is a sentence of the lesson «Distances and light years» 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 (Space, kilometres, astronomers, light), 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	Space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 big	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 stop	mark
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stop	nsubj
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	advcl
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 useful	cop
9	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stop	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 measure	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 measure	advmod
12	astronomers	astronomer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 measure	nsubj
13	measure	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stop	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 measure	obj
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 travels	mark
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 far	advmod
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 travels	advmod
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 travels	nsubj
19	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 measure	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thing	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thing	det
22	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Space	appos
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 is	expl
25	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 thing	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Space			big property	tree rules
2	stop	present	kilometres				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	gerund	kilometres not said here			useful property	tree rules
4	measure	present	astronomers	Space			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value
5	travel	present	light			far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	be	present	the fastest thing not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:022-distances-and-light-years.lesson:0.

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, 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.

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