Distances and light years, sentence 15
The Moon is moving away from Earth by about 3.8 centimetres a year, about as fast as fingernails grow.
Who acts: Moon, fingernails · What happens: move away, grow · To what, where: Earth
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 (Moon, fingernails), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moving | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moving | aux |
| 4 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 moving | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Earth | case |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 moving | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 centimetres | case |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 3.8 | advmod |
| 10 | 3.8 | 3.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 centimetres | nummod |
| 11 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moving | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 centimetres | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fast | punct |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 fast | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 fast | advmod |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 moving | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 grow | mark |
| 19 | fingernails | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grow | nsubj |
| 20 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fast | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moving | 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 | move away | present · progressive | the Moon | Earth | by 3.8 centimetres a year; away, fast property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from earth=Source by centimetre=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | grow | present | fingernails | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:15.
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): R7-rel-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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