Telescopes and light, sentence 15
X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes have to work in space, because Earth's atmosphere blocks those rays.
Who acts: X ray, atmosphere · What happens: have, work, block · To what, where: rays
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 (X ray, atmosphere), 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 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ray | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 X | punct |
| 3 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 telescopes | cc |
| 5 | gamma | gamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ray | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 gamma | punct |
| 7 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 telescopes | compound |
| 8 | telescopes | telescope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ray | conj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 work | mark |
| 11 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 space | case |
| 13 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 work | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 blocks | mark |
| 16 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 atmosphere | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Earth | case |
| 18 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blocks | nsubj |
| 19 | blocks | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | advcl |
| 20 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 rays | det |
| 21 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 blocks | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | 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 | have | present | X ray and ray telescopes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | X ray and ray telescopes not said here | in space | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in space=Theme | ||||
| 3 | block | present | Earth's atmosphere | that rays | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ray=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:027-telescopes-and-light.lesson:15.
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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