How we know: measuring the sky, sentence 6

Some answers came first from pure reasoning: Neptune was found in 1846 exactly where maths said a hidden planet must be pulling Uranus.

Who acts: answers, maths, hidden planet · What happens: come, find, say, pull · To what, where: pure reasoning, Neptune, 1846, Uranus · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (answers, maths, hidden planet), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 answers	det
2	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 reasoning	case
6	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reasoning	amod
7	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
9	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 found	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux:pass
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 1846	case
13	1846	1846	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 found	obl
14	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	17 said	advmod
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 said	advmod
16	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 planet	det
19	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 planet	amod
20	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pulling	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 pulling	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 pulling	aux
23	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
24	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 pulling	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	some answers		pure reasoning	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from reasoning=Initial_Location
2	find	past · passive		Neptune	1846		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	maths			exactly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pull	must · progressive	a hidden planet	Uranus			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent uranus=Result

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:6.

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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