The Moon, sentence 8
The dark patches on the Moon are called maria, Latin for seas, but they are plains of ancient hardened lava, not water.
Who acts: patches · What happens: call, be, harden · To what, where: dark patches, plains · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (patches), 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 | 3 patches | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 patches | amod |
| 3 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Moon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Moon | det |
| 6 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 patches | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Latin | punct |
| 11 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 maria | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 seas | case |
| 13 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plains | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 plains | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 plains | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 plains | cop |
| 18 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lava | case |
| 20 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lava | amod |
| 21 | hardened | harden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 lava | amod |
| 22 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plains | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 water | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 water | advmod |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lava | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | 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 | call | present · passive | the dark patches on the Moon | for seas | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for sea=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | patches = patch | plains | of ancient hardened lava and water | tree rules | |||
| 3 | harden | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:8.
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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