Phases, eclipses and tides, sentence 5
The Moon's phases happen because we see different amounts of its sunlit half as it orbits the Earth.
Who acts: phases, we, eclipse · What happens: happen, see, orbit, amount · To what, where: different amounts, Earth, sunlit half
This is a sentence of the lesson «Phases, eclipses and tides» 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 (phases, we, eclipse), 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 | 4 phases | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Moon | case |
| 4 | phases | phase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | advcl |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 amounts | amod |
| 10 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 half | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 half | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sunlit | sunlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 half | amod |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 10 amounts | nmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 orbits | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 orbits | nsubj |
| 17 | orbits | orbit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Earth | det |
| 19 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 orbits | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | 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 | happen | present | the Moon's phases | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | present | we | different amounts of eclipse's sunlit half | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer amount=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | orbit | present | eclipse | the Earth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | amount | eclipse's sunlit half | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:007-phases-eclipses-and-tides.lesson:5.
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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