Distances and light years, sentence 12

If the Sun were a football in the middle of a pitch, Earth would be a peppercorn about 25 metres away, and the nearest star another football thousands of kilometres away.

Who acts: Sun, Earth · What happens: be · To what, where: football, middle, peppercorn

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 (Sun, Earth), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 football	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 football	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 football	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 football	det
6	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 peppercorn	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 football	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 pitch	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pitch	det
12	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 football	punct
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 peppercorn	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 peppercorn	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 peppercorn	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 peppercorn	det
18	peppercorn	peppercorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 25	advmod
20	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 metres	nummod
21	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 away	obl:unmarked
22	away	away	ADV	_	18 peppercorn	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 star	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 star	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 star	det
26	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 star	amod
27	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 peppercorn	conj
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 football	det
29	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 thousands	compound
30	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 star	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 kilometres	case
32	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 thousands	nmod
33	away	away	ADV	_	29 football	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 peppercorn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	the Sun	a football		the middle of a pitch			tree rules
2	is a	would	Earth	a peppercorn and the nearest star football thousands of kilometres				away property	tree rules

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:12.

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 ×3. 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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