The Milky Way, sentence 7

The disc of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across but only about 1,000 light years thick in most places.

Who acts: disc · What happens: be · To what, where: 100,000 light years

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 (disc), 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 disc	det
2	disc	disc	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 years	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Way	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Way	det
5	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Way	amod
6	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 disc	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 years	cop
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 100,000	advmod
9	100,000	100000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 years	compound
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	across	across	ADV	_	11 years	advmod
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 years	cc
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 1,000	advmod
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 1,000	advmod
16	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 years	compound
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 years	conj
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 years	amod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 places	case
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 places	amod
22	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thick	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 years	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 disc of the Milky Way	100,000 light years but 1,000 light years				across property	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:023-the-milky-way.lesson:7.

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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