Telescopes and light, sentence 0
A telescope is above all a light bucket: its main job is to collect as much light as possible, so faint things show up clearly.
Who acts: telescope, main job, faint things · What happens: be, show up, job · To what, where: light bucket
This is a sentence of the lesson «Telescopes and light» 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 (telescope, main job, faint things), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 telescope | det |
| 2 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bucket | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bucket | cop |
| 4 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 bucket | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 bucket | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bucket | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bucket | compound |
| 8 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 collect | punct |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 job | nmod:poss |
| 11 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 job | amod |
| 12 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 collect | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 collect | cop |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 collect | mark |
| 15 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bucket | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 light | amod |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 collect | obj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 possible | mark |
| 20 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 light | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 show | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 show | advmod |
| 23 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 things | amod |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 show | nsubj |
| 25 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 collect | advcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 show | compound:prt |
| 27 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 25 show | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bucket | 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 | a telescope | all light bucket | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | telescope's main job | collect property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show up | present | faint things | clearly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | job | telescope | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:027-telescopes-and-light.lesson:0.
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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