Distances and light years, sentence 8
The nearest star after the Sun is Proxima Centauri, about 4.2 light years away, or about 40 trillion km.
Who acts: nearest star · What happens: be · To what, where: Proxima
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 (nearest star), 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 | 3 star | det |
| 2 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 star | amod |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Proxima | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 Sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun | det |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 star | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Proxima | cop |
| 8 | Proxima | Proxima | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | Centauri | Centauri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Proxima | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 years | punct |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 4.2 | advmod |
| 12 | 4.2 | 4.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 years | compound |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Proxima | parataxis |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 years | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 40 | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 40 | cc |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 40 | advmod |
| 19 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 years | conj |
| 20 | trillion | trillion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 km | nummod |
| 21 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 40 | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Proxima | 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 | present | the nearest star after the Sun | Proxima | 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:8.
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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