Asteroids and the asteroid belt, sentence 16
A meteoroid is a small space rock, a meteor is its streak of light in the sky as it burns up in our air, and a meteorite is a piece that reaches the ground.
Who acts: meteoroid, meteor, meteorite, piece · What happens: be, burn up, reach · To what, where: small space rock, streak, sky, air, piece, ground
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 (meteoroid, meteor, meteorite, piece), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 meteoroid | det |
| 2 | meteoroid | meteoroid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rock | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rock | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rock | amod |
| 6 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rock | compound |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 streak | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 meteor | det |
| 10 | meteor | meteor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 streak | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 streak | cop |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 streak | nmod:poss |
| 13 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rock | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 light | case |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 streak | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sky | det |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 streak | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 burns | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 burns | nsubj |
| 21 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 streak | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 burns | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 air | case |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 air | nmod:poss |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burns | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 piece | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 piece | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 meteorite | det |
| 29 | meteorite | meteorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 piece | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 piece | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 piece | det |
| 32 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rock | conj |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 reaches | nsubj |
| 34 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 piece | acl:relcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ground | det |
| 36 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 reaches | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rock | 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 | is a | present | a meteoroid | a small space rock and a piece | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a meteor | meteor's streak | the sky | of light | tree rules | ||
| 3 | burn up | present | meteoroid | our air | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a meteorite | a piece | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | reach | present | a piece | the ground | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=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:16.
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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