The Moon, sentence 16
The Moon makes no light of its own; it shines by reflecting sunlight.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: make, shine, reflect · To what, where: light, sunlight
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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 light | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 own | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 own | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 light | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 shines | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shines | nsubj |
| 11 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 reflecting | mark |
| 13 | reflecting | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 makes | advcl |
| 14 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reflecting | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the Moon | no light of Moon's own | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product | ||||
| 2 | shine | present | Moon | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reflect | gerund | the Moon not said here | sunlight | 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:006-the-moon.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-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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