The Milky Way, sentence 6
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, with a bar of stars across its centre and spiral arms curling out from it.
Who acts: Milky Way, spiral arms · What happens: bar, be, curl out · To what, where: barred spiral galaxy, Way
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 (Milky Way, spiral arms), 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 Way | det |
| 2 | Milky | milky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Way | amod |
| 3 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 galaxy | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 galaxy | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 galaxy | det |
| 6 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 galaxy | amod |
| 7 | spiral | spiral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 galaxy | amod |
| 8 | galaxy | galaxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bar | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bar | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bar | det |
| 12 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 galaxy | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stars | case |
| 14 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bar | nmod |
| 15 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 centre | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 centre | nmod:poss |
| 17 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bar | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 curling | cc |
| 19 | spiral | spiral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 arms | amod |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 curling | nsubj |
| 21 | curling | curl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 centre | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 curling | compound:prt |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 curling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 galaxy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bar | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Milky Way | a barred spiral galaxy and a bar of stars across Way's centre | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | curl out | gerund | spiral arms | Way | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from it=Destination |
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:6.
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): 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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