Distances and light years, sentence 14
Bright stars are at very different distances: Sirius is about 8.6 light years away, Vega about 25, Polaris about 430, and Deneb probably more than 1,500.
Who acts: Bright stars, Sirius · What happens: be
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 (Bright stars, Sirius), 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 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stars | amod |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 distances | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 distances | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 distances | case |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 different | advmod |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distances | amod |
| 7 | distances | distance | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 away | punct |
| 9 | Sirius | Sirius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 away | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 away | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 8.6 | advmod |
| 12 | 8.6 | 8.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 14 years | nummod |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 years | compound |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 away | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 distances | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Vega | punct |
| 17 | Vega | vega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 more | nsubj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 25 | advmod |
| 19 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Vega | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Polaris | punct |
| 21 | Polaris | Polaris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 more | nsubj |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 430 | advmod |
| 23 | 430 | 430 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Polaris | list |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Deneb | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Deneb | cc |
| 26 | Deneb | Deneb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Polaris | conj |
| 27 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 30 1,500 | advmod |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 away | obl |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 1,500 | case |
| 30 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 more | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 distances | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bright stars | at different distances | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Sirius | year | more obl; 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:14.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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