Exoplanets and the search for life, sentence 12
The James Webb Space Telescope can study the air of some exoplanets by looking at starlight that has passed through it.
Who acts: Space Telescope, starlight · What happens: study, look, pass · To what, where: air, telescope
This is a sentence of the lesson «Exoplanets and the search for life» 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 (Space Telescope, starlight), 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 Telescope | det |
| 2 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Space | amod |
| 3 | Webb | Webb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Space | compound |
| 4 | Space | Space | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Telescope | compound |
| 5 | Telescope | Telescope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 study | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 study | aux |
| 7 | study | study | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 study | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 exoplanets | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 exoplanets | det |
| 12 | exoplanets | exoplanet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 air | nmod |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 looking | mark |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 study | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 starlight | case |
| 16 | starlight | starlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 passed | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 passed | aux |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 starlight | acl:relcl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 passed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 study | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | can | the Space Telescope | the air of some exoplanets | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the Space Telescope not said here | at starlight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at starlight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | present · perfect | starlight | telescope | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location |
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:026-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life.lesson:12.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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