How we know: measuring the sky, sentence 16
Neptune was found in 1846 where Urbain Le Verrier predicted it should be, from the way Uranus was being pulled off course.
Who acts: Urbain, way · What happens: find, predict, pull off · To what, where: Neptune, 1846, way, Uranus
This is a sentence of the lesson «How we know: measuring the sky» 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 (Urbain, way), 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 | Neptune | Neptune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux:pass |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1846 | case |
| 5 | 1846 | 1846 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 found | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 predicted | advmod |
| 7 | Urbain | Urbain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 predicted | nsubj |
| 8 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Urbain | flat |
| 9 | Verrier | Verrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Urbain | flat |
| 10 | predicted | predict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 be | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 be | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 predicted | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pulled | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 predicted | obl |
| 18 | Uranus | Uranus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pulled | aux:pass |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 pulled | aux:pass |
| 21 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 way | acl |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 pulled | compound:prt |
| 23 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pulled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | Neptune | 1846 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | predict | past | Urbain | the way | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | pull off | past · passive | the way not said here | Uranus | course obl | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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:028-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky.lesson:16.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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