Exoplanets and the search for life, sentence 8

NASA's Kepler telescope, working from 2009 to 2018, found thousands of exoplanets, and TESS has searched almost the whole sky since 2018 for more planets passing in front of their stars.

Who acts: Kepler telescope, TESS, more planets · What happens: work, find, search, pass · To what, where: 2009, thousands, whole sky, 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 (Kepler telescope, TESS, more planets), 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	NASA	NASA	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 telescope	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 NASA	case
3	Kepler	Kepler	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 telescope	compound
4	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 working	punct
6	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 telescope	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 2009	case
8	2009	2009	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 working	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 2018	case
10	2018	2018	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 2009	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 found	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 exoplanets	case
15	exoplanets	exoplanet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thousands	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 searched	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 searched	cc
18	TESS	TESS	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 searched	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 searched	aux
20	searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 found	conj
21	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 sky	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sky	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sky	amod
24	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 searched	obj
25	since	since	ADP	_	26 2018	case
26	2018	2018	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 searched	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 planets	case
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 planets	amod
29	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 searched	obl
30	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 planets	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 front	case
32	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 passing	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 stars	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 stars	nmod:poss
35	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 front	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund	NASA's Kepler telescope not said here		2009 to 2018			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	NASA's Kepler telescope	thousands of exoplanets				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Topic
3	search	present · perfect	TESS	the whole sky		since 2018	for more planets	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sky=Location for planet=Theme
4	pass	gerund	more planets not said here		front of thousands's stars			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:8.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/26-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life/8/