Mercury, sentence 12
Mercury's surface is covered in craters like the Moon's, and the Caloris Basin is about 1,500 kilometres across.
Who acts: Caloris Basin · What happens: cover, be · To what, where: surface, 1,500 kilometres
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 (Caloris Basin), 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 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 surface | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mercury | case |
| 3 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | aux:pass |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 craters | case |
| 7 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 Moon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 craters | nmod |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Moon | case |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kilometres | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kilometres | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Basin | det |
| 15 | Caloris | Caloris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Basin | compound |
| 16 | Basin | Basin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 kilometres | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 kilometres | cop |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 1,500 | advmod |
| 19 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 kilometres | nummod |
| 20 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | conj |
| 21 | across | across | ADV | _ | 20 kilometres | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present · passive | Mercury's surface | in craters like the Moon | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in crater=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Caloris Basin | 1,500 kilometres | across property | tree rules |
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:12.
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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