Exoplanets and the search for life, sentence 2
It is like a moth flying across a distant lighthouse: you cannot see the moth, but the light flickers.
Who acts: star, moth, you, light · What happens: be, fly, not see, flicker · To what, where: distant lighthouse, moth
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 (star, moth, you, light), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 moth | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 moth | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 moth | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moth | det |
| 5 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 moth | acl |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 lighthouse | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lighthouse | det |
| 9 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lighthouse | amod |
| 10 | lighthouse | lighthouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flying | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 moth | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moth | det |
| 17 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flickers | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 flickers | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flickers | det |
| 21 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flickers | nsubj |
| 22 | flickers | flicker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | star | like a moth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | a moth not said here | a distant lighthouse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across lighthouse=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not see | can | you | the moth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moth=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | flicker | present | light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:2.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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