Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★, sentence 3
Picture Finn from Glasgow on a dreich night (dull and drizzly, in Scots), saying "That wee star's been up there a million years, ken" ("ken" means you know) - the million is hyperbole, but the real puzzle is how long its light has been travelling.
Who acts: Picture Finn, wee star, ken, you, million, real puzzle · What happens: say, be, ken, mean, know, travel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» 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 (Picture Finn, wee star, ken, you), 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 | Picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Finn | compound |
| 2 | Finn | finn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Glasgow | case |
| 4 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Finn | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 7 | dreich | dreich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 night | amod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Finn | nmod |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 dull | punct |
| 10 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 night | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drizzly | cc |
| 12 | drizzly | drizzly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dull | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Scots | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Scots | case |
| 15 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 dull | obl |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 dull | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Finn | acl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 there | punct |
| 20 | That | that | DET | PronType=Dem | 22 star | det |
| 21 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 star | amod |
| 22 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 there | nsubj |
| 23 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 been | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 there | cop |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 26 there | advmod |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 years | det |
| 28 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 years | nummod |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 there | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ken | punct |
| 31 | ken | ken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 there | advcl |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 means | punct |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 means | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 ken | punct |
| 35 | ken | ken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 means | nsubj |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 ken | punct |
| 37 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 ken | advcl:relcl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 know | nsubj |
| 39 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 means | ccomp |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 means | punct |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 hyperbole | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 million | det |
| 43 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 hyperbole | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 hyperbole | cop |
| 45 | hyperbole | hyperbole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Finn | parataxis |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 long | punct |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 53 long | cc |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 puzzle | det |
| 49 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 puzzle | amod |
| 50 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 long | nsubj |
| 51 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 long | cop |
| 52 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 53 long | advmod |
| 53 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 hyperbole | conj |
| 54 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 light | nmod:poss |
| 55 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 travelling | nsubj |
| 56 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 travelling | aux |
| 57 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 58 travelling | aux |
| 58 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 53 long | ccomp |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Picture Finn from Glasgow on a dreich night not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | participle | that wee star | year | there property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ken in a quote | participle | that wee star not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | ken | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | present | the million | hyperbole property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | present | the real puzzle | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | travel | present · perfect · progressive | puzzle's light | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | light | puzzle | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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:032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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