Exoplanets and the search for life, sentence 5
An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun, and more than 6,000 have been confirmed, a number still rising.
Who acts: exoplanet, planet, number · What happens: be, orbit, confirm, rise · To what, where: planet, star, 6,000
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 (exoplanet, planet, number), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 exoplanet | det |
| 2 | exoplanet | exoplanet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 planet | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 planet | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 planet | det |
| 5 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 orbits | nsubj |
| 7 | orbits | orbit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 planet | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 star | det |
| 9 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 orbits | obj |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 star | amod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 Sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sun | det |
| 13 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 other | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 confirmed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 confirmed | cc |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 18 6,000 | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 more | fixed |
| 18 | 6,000 | 6000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 confirmed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 confirmed | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 21 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 planet | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 number | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 number | det |
| 24 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 confirmed | obl |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 rising | advmod |
| 26 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 number | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 planet | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a exoplanet | a planet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | orbit | present | a planet | a star | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | confirm | present · perfect · passive | 6,000 | a number obl | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | rise | gerund | a number not said here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «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:026-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life.lesson:5.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/26-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life/5/