The Milky Way, sentence 3
We sit far out in a small arm, about 26,000 light years from the busy centre, where a giant black hole hides.
Who acts: We, giant black hole · What happens: sit, hide · To what, where: small arm
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 (We, giant black hole), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sit | nsubj |
| 2 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 out | advmod |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 sit | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 arm | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 arm | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 arm | amod |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sit | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 years | punct |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 26,000 | advmod |
| 11 | 26,000 | 26,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 years | compound |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sit | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 centre | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 centre | det |
| 16 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 centre | amod |
| 17 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sit | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hides | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 hides | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hole | det |
| 21 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hole | amod |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hole | amod |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hides | nsubj |
| 24 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 centre | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | We | a small arm | year | from the busy centre; out property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location | ||
| 2 | hide | present | a giant black hole | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:3.
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. 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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