The Moon, sentence 3

There is almost no air, so on the Moon the sky is black even by day, there is no wind and no sound, and footprints can last for millions of years.

Who acts: air, sky, wind, footprints · What happens: be, last · To what, where: Moon

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 (air, sky, wind, footprints), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 air	advmod
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 black	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	14 black	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 black	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 black	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 black	cop
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 is	parataxis
15	even	even	ADV	_	17 day	advmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 day	case
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 black	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 is	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 is	expl
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 wind	det
22	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 is	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sound	cc
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 sound	det
25	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wind	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 last	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 last	cc
28	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 last	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 last	aux
30	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 is	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 millions	case
32	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 last	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 years	case
34	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 millions	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no air	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the sky	the Moon	day	black property	tree rules
3	does	present	no wind and no sound	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	last	can	footprints			for millions of years	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:3.

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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