The Earth as a planet, sentence 14
The Earth bulges slightly at the equator, being about 43 kilometres wider across the equator than from pole to pole.
Who acts: Earth · What happens: bulge, be · To what, where: equator
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Earth as a planet» 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 (Earth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bulges | nsubj |
| 3 | bulges | bulge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 3 bulges | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 equator | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 equator | det |
| 7 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bulges | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bulges | punct |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wider | cop |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 43 | advmod |
| 11 | 43 | 43 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 kilometres | nummod |
| 12 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wider | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 bulges | advcl |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 equator | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 equator | det |
| 16 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wider | obl |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 pole | case |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 pole | case |
| 19 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 equator | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 pole | case |
| 21 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pole | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bulges | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bulge | present | the Earth | the equator | slightly property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at equator=Location | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | the Earth not said here | the equator than pole to pole | 43 kilometres obl:unmarked; wide property | 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:005-the-earth-as-a-planet.lesson:14.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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