Black holes, sentence 8
The nearest known black holes are more than a thousand light years away, far too far to harm us.
Who acts: nearest known black holes · What happens: know, be, harm · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of the lesson «Black holes» 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 (nearest known black holes), 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 | 5 holes | det |
| 2 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 holes | amod |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 holes | amod |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 holes | amod |
| 5 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 more | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 more | cop |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thousand | det |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 years | compound |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 away | obl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 far | punct |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 far | advmod |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 far | advmod |
| 17 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 more | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 harm | mark |
| 19 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 far | advcl |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 harm | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 more | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the nearest known black holes | away, more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the nearest known black holes not said here | far property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | harm | to-infinitive | the nearest known black holes not said here | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
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:025-black-holes.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): R5-strong ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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