The Earth as a planet, sentence 4
Seen from Voyager 1 six billion kilometres away, the whole Earth was a pale blue dot smaller than a single pixel.
Who acts: whole Earth · What happens: see, be · To what, where: Voyager, pale blue dot
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 (whole 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 | Seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 dot | advcl |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Voyager | case |
| 3 | Voyager | Voyager | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Seen | obl |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Voyager | compound |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 billion | compound |
| 6 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 kilometres | nummod |
| 7 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 away | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Seen | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dot | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Earth | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Earth | amod |
| 12 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dot | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dot | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dot | det |
| 15 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dot | amod |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dot | amod |
| 17 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 dot | amod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 pixel | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pixel | det |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pixel | amod |
| 22 | pixel | pixel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 smaller | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 dot | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | participle | the whole Earth not said here | Voyager | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the whole Earth | a pale blue dot | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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