The Moon, sentence 0
The Moon is a ball of grey rock about a quarter as wide as the Earth, circling us about 384,000 kilometres away, the width of about 30 Earths in a row.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: be, circle · To what, where: ball, us
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon» 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 (Moon), 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 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ball | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ball | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ball | det |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 7 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rock | amod |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ball | nmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 quarter | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 quarter | det |
| 11 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rock | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 wide | advmod |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 quarter | amod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Earth | det |
| 16 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wide | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 circling | punct |
| 18 | circling | circle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Moon | acl |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 circling | obj |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 384,000 | advmod |
| 21 | 384,000 | 384,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 kilometres | nummod |
| 22 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 away | obl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 circling | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 width | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 width | det |
| 26 | width | width | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Moon | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Earths | case |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 30 | advmod |
| 29 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 Earths | nummod |
| 30 | Earths | earth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 width | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 row | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 row | det |
| 33 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Earths | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ball | 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 | the Moon | a ball | of grey rock a quarter | tree rules | |||
| 2 | circle | gerund | the Moon not said here | us | away property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Co-Theme |
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:006-the-moon.lesson:0.
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 ×3. 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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