Venus, sentence 4
From the Earth it is the brightest thing in the night sky after the Moon, so bright that people sometimes report it as a UFO.
Who acts: sun, people · What happens: be, report · To what, where: brightest thing, Earth, sun
This is a sentence of the lesson «Venus» 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 (sun, people), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 Earth | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Earth | det |
| 3 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sky | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sky | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sky | compound |
| 12 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | nmod |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 Moon | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Moon | det |
| 15 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sky | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bright | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 bright | advmod |
| 18 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 report | mark |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 report | nsubj |
| 21 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 22 report | advmod |
| 22 | report | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bright | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 report | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 UFO | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 UFO | det |
| 26 | UFO | ufo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 report | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sun | the brightest thing | the Earth | in the night sky after the Moon | tree rules | ||
| 2 | report | present | people | sun | as a UFO; sometimes property | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as ufo=Attribute |
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:004-venus.lesson:4.
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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