Exoplanets and the search for life, sentence 14
SETI scientists listen with radio telescopes for signals from intelligent life, but no confirmed alien signal has ever been found.
Who acts: SETI scientists · What happens: listen, confirm, find · To what, where: confirmed alien signal
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 (SETI scientists), 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 | SETI | SETI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 scientists | compound |
| 2 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 listen | nsubj |
| 3 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 telescopes | case |
| 5 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 telescopes | compound |
| 6 | telescopes | telescope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 listen | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 signals | case |
| 8 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 listen | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 life | amod |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signals | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 signal | det |
| 15 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 signal | amod |
| 16 | alien | alien | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 signal | amod |
| 17 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 found | advmod |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 listen | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present | SETI scientists | with radio telescopes; for signals from intelligent life | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for signal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | confirm | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | find | present · perfect · passive | no confirmed alien signal | ever | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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:14.
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 ×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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