Mercury, sentence 10
Although Mercury is closest to the Sun, it is not the hottest planet; Venus is, because its thick air traps heat.
Who acts: Mercury, Sun, thick air · What happens: be, not be, trap · To what, where: hottest planet, Venus, heat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mercury» 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 (Mercury, Sun, thick air), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 4 closest | mark |
| 2 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 closest | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 closest | cop |
| 4 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 planet | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 closest | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 closest | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 planet | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 planet | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 planet | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 planet | det |
| 13 | hottest | hot | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 planet | amod |
| 14 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Venus | punct |
| 16 | Venus | venus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 planet | conj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Venus | cop |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 traps | mark |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 air | nmod:poss |
| 21 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 air | amod |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 traps | nsubj |
| 23 | traps | trap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 is | advcl |
| 24 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 traps | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 planet | 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 | Mercury | to the Sun; close property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | Sun | the hottest planet and Venus | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Sun not said here | Venus | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | trap | present | Sun's thick air | heat | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient |
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:003-mercury.lesson:10.
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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