Distances and light years, sentence 1
A light year sounds like a time, but it is a distance: how far light goes in one year, about 9.5 trillion kilometres.
Who acts: light year, light · What happens: sound, be, go · To what, where: distance, trillion kilometres
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 (light year, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 2 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounds | nsubj |
| 4 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounds | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 distance | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 distance | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 distance | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 distance | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 distance | det |
| 13 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounds | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 goes | punct |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 far | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 goes | advmod |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 goes | nsubj |
| 18 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounds | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 year | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 year | nummod |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 goes | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 kilometres | punct |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 trillion | advmod |
| 24 | 9.5 | 9.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 25 trillion | compound |
| 25 | trillion | trillion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 kilometres | nummod |
| 26 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | a light year | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | light | a distance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | present | light | trillion kilometres | year | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:1.
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): no change. 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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