Distances and light years, sentence 10
Even at Voyager's speed, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take about 75,000 years.
Who acts: journey · What happens: take · To what, where: speed
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 (journey), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 speed | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 speed | case |
| 3 | Voyager | Voyager | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 speed | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Voyager | case |
| 5 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 speed | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 journey | det |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Proxima | case |
| 10 | Proxima | Proxima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 journey | nmod |
| 11 | Centauri | Centauri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Proxima | flat |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 75,000 | advmod |
| 15 | 75,000 | 75,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 take | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would | a journey to Proxima | Voyager's speed | year | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at speed=Asset |
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:10.
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): 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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