Exoplanets and the search for life, sentence 7
Most exoplanets have been found by the transit method: a star dims slightly when a planet passes in front of it.
Who acts: transit method, star, planet · What happens: find, dim, pass · To what, where: Most exoplanets, transit method, front
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 (transit method, star, planet), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 exoplanets | amod |
| 2 | exoplanets | exoplanet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 found | aux:pass |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 method | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 method | det |
| 8 | transit | transit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 method | compound |
| 9 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 dims | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 star | det |
| 12 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dims | nsubj |
| 13 | dims | dim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 method | acl:relcl |
| 14 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 13 dims | advmod |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 passes | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 planet | det |
| 17 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passes | nsubj |
| 18 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dims | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passes | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 front | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | 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 | find | present · perfect · passive | the transit method | Most exoplanets | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dim | present | a star | the transit method not said here | slightly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent method=Patient | |||
| 3 | pass | present | a planet | front of star | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=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:7.
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): no change. 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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