Mercury, sentence 3

Mercury has almost no air to hold heat, like a desert night but far worse: the day side is hot enough to melt lead and the night side colder than Antarctica.

Who acts: Mercury, day side, night side · What happens: have, hold, be, melt · To what, where: air, heat, lead

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, day side, night side), 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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	2 has	advmod
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 air	acl
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 night	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 night	det
12	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 night	compound
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obl
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 worse	cc
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 worse	advmod
16	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 night	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 hot	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 side	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 side	compound
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hot	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hot	cop
22	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 has	parataxis
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 hot	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 melt	mark
25	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hot	xcomp
26	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 melt	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 colder	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 side	det
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 side	compound
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 colder	nsubj
31	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 hot	conj
32	than	than	ADP	_	33 Antarctica	case
33	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 colder	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Mercury	no air	night	almost property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
2	hold	to-infinitive	Mercury not said here	heat			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
3	is	present	the day side			enough, hot property	tree rules
4	melt	to-infinitive	the day side not said here	lead			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient lead=Result
5	be		the night side			than Antarctica	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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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