Mercury, sentence 8
Mercury spins very slowly, so one sunrise to the next takes about 176 Earth days, two of its years.
Who acts: Mercury, one sunrise · What happens: spin, take
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, one sunrise), 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 spins | nsubj |
| 2 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 slowly | advmod |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 spins | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 takes | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 takes | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sunrise | nummod |
| 8 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 takes | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 next | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 next | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sunrise | nmod |
| 12 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spins | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 176 | advmod |
| 14 | 176 | 176 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 days | nummod |
| 15 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 days | compound |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 takes | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 days | punct |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 days | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 years | nmod:poss |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 two | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spins | 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 | spin | present | Mercury | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | present | one sunrise to the next | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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