The Milky Way, sentence 12
In 1610 Galileo turned a small telescope on the Milky Way and found it was made of countless faint stars.
Who acts: Galileo · What happens: turn, find, make · To what, where: small telescope, 1610, Way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Milky Way» 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 (Galileo), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1610 | case |
| 2 | 1610 | 1610 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 turned | obl |
| 3 | Galileo | galileo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 telescope | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 telescope | amod |
| 7 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Way | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Way | det |
| 10 | Milky | Milky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Way | flat |
| 11 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux:pass |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 found | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stars | case |
| 18 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stars | amod |
| 19 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stars | amod |
| 20 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Galileo | a small telescope | 1610 | on the Milky Way | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent telescope=Theme in 1610=Source on way=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | find | past | Galileo not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | Way | of countless faint stars | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:023-the-milky-way.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): 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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