Mercury, sentence 18
Mercury is hard to spot because it never strays far from the Sun, so it is seen only low in the sky just after sunset or before sunrise.
Who acts: Mercury, spacecraft · What happens: be, spot, not stray, see · To what, where: spacecraft
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, spacecraft), 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 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hard | cop |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 spot | mark |
| 5 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hard | xcomp |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 strays | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 strays | nsubj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 strays | advmod |
| 9 | strays | stray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hard | advcl |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 strays | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sun | det |
| 13 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 far | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 seen | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 strays | conj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 low | advmod |
| 20 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seen | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sky | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sky | det |
| 23 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 low | obl |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 sunset | advmod |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 sunset | case |
| 26 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | obl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 sunrise | cc |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 sunrise | case |
| 29 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sunset | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hard | 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 | is | present | Mercury | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spot | to-infinitive | Mercury not said here | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 3 | not stray | present | spacecraft | far property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | present · passive | spacecraft | sunset | low property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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:18.
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): 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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