The Moon, sentence 15
The Moon is slowly drifting away from the Earth by about 3.8 centimetres a year.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: drift away · To what, where: Earth
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 drifting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drifting | aux |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 drifting | advmod |
| 5 | drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 drifting | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Earth | det |
| 9 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 drifting | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 centimetres | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 3.8 | advmod |
| 12 | 3.8 | 3.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 centimetres | nummod |
| 13 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drifting | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 centimetres | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drifting | 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 | drift away | present · progressive | the Moon | the Earth | by 3.8 centimetres a year; away, slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from earth=Source by centimetre=Trajectory |
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:15.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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