The Milky Way, sentence 8
The Sun lies about 26,000 light years from the galaxy's centre, in a smaller arm called the Orion Spur.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: lie, call · To what, where: centre, smaller arm · 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 (Sun), 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 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 26,000 | advmod |
| 5 | 26,000 | 26,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 years | compound |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lies | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 centre | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 galaxy | det |
| 10 | galaxy | galaxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 centre | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 galaxy | case |
| 12 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arm | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 arm | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 arm | det |
| 16 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 arm | amod |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | obl |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 arm | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Spur | det |
| 20 | Orion | Orion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Spur | compound |
| 21 | Spur | spur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the Sun | the galaxy's centre | year | in a smaller arm | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location | ||
| 2 | call | participle | a smaller arm not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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: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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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