Mars, sentence 5
Mars looks red because its surface dust and rocks contain iron oxide, which is rust.
Who acts: Mars, surface dust, iron oxide · What happens: look, contain, be · To what, where: iron oxide, rust
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mars» 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 (Mars, surface dust, iron oxide), 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 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looks | xcomp |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 contain | mark |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dust | nmod:poss |
| 6 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dust | compound |
| 7 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contain | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rocks | cc |
| 9 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dust | conj |
| 10 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looks | advcl |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oxide | compound |
| 12 | oxide | oxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contain | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 oxide | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 rust | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rust | cop |
| 16 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oxide | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Mars | red property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | contain | present | life's surface dust and rocks | iron oxide | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot oxide=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | iron oxide | rust | 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:008-mars.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): 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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