Asteroids and the asteroid belt, sentence 13

Some asteroids cross the Earth's orbit, and astronomers track tens of thousands of these near-Earth objects to check whether any could hit us.

Who acts: asteroids, astronomers, any · What happens: cross, track, check, hit · To what, where: orbit, tens, us

This is a sentence of the lesson «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» 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 (asteroids, astronomers, any), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 asteroids	det
2	asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cross	nsubj
3	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 orbit	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Earth	case
7	orbit	orbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cross	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 track	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 track	cc
10	astronomers	astronomer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 track	nsubj
11	track	track	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	conj
12	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 track	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 thousands	case
14	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tens	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	20 objects	case
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 objects	det
17	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Earth	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 near	punct
19	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 objects	compound
20	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thousands	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 check	mark
22	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 track	advcl
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 hit	mark
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 hit	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hit	aux
26	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 check	ccomp
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 hit	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cross	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cross	present	some asteroids	the Earth's orbit	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orbit=Patient
2	track	present	astronomers	tens of thousands of this Earth objects	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Theme
3	check	to-infinitive	astronomers not said here		tree rules
4	hit	could	any	us	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Co-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:009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.lesson:13.

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): R5-strong ×3. 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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