The Earth as a planet, sentence 7
The Earth's axis is tilted by about 23.4 degrees, and this tilt, not our distance from the Sun, causes the seasons.
Who acts: 23.4 degrees, tilt · What happens: tilt, cause · To what, where: axis
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 (23.4 degrees, tilt), 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 | 4 axis | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Earth | case |
| 4 | axis | axis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tilted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tilted | aux:pass |
| 6 | tilted | tilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 degrees | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 23.4 | advmod |
| 9 | 23.4 | 23.4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 degrees | nummod |
| 10 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tilted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 causes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 causes | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 tilt | det |
| 14 | tilt | tilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 causes | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 distance | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 distance | advmod |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 distance | nmod:poss |
| 18 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tilt | appos |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Sun | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sun | det |
| 21 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 distance | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tilt | punct |
| 23 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tilted | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 seasons | det |
| 25 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 causes | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tilted | 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 | tilt | present · passive | 23.4 degrees | the Earth's axis | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cause | present | this tilt | season | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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:7.
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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