How we know: measuring the sky, sentence 2
Stars do the same as Earth moves round the Sun, and the smaller the jump, the farther the star.
Who acts: Stars, Earth · What happens: do, move · To what, where: same, Sun
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 (Stars, Earth), 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 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 do | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 do | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 moves | mark |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 moves | nsubj |
| 7 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 do | advcl |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 Sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 moves | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 farther | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 farther | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 smaller | det |
| 14 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 farther | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jump | det |
| 16 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smaller | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 farther | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 farther | det |
| 19 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 do | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 star | det |
| 21 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 farther | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | 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 | do | present | Stars | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | move | present | Earth | the Sun | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round sun=Trajectory |
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:2.
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): 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.
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