Phases, eclipses and tides, sentence 8
The phases are not caused by the Earth's shadow; this is a common mistake.
Who acts: shadow, this, Earth · What happens: not cause, be, shadow · To what, where: phases, common mistake
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 (shadow, this, Earth), 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 phases | det |
| 2 | phases | phase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 caused | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 caused | advmod |
| 5 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 shadow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Earth | det |
| 8 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Earth | case |
| 10 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caused | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 mistake | punct |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 mistake | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mistake | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mistake | det |
| 15 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mistake | amod |
| 16 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caused | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cause | present · passive | the Earth's shadow | the phases | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | a common mistake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shadow | the Earth | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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: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): 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.
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