Wind, sun and other clean energy, sentence 12

A solar farm is a field of panels, sometimes with sheep grazing between them, and some panels turn slowly to follow the Sun across the sky.

Who acts: solar farm, sheep, panels · What happens: be, graze, turn, follow · To what, where: field, Sun, sky

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind, sun and other clean energy» of the technology 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 (solar farm, sheep, panels), 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	3 farm	det
2	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 farm	amod
3	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 field	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 field	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 field	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 panels	case
8	panels	panel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 field	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sheep	punct
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 sheep	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 sheep	case
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 panels	nmod
13	grazing	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sheep	acl
14	between	between	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grazing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turn	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turn	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 panels	det
19	panels	panel	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turn	nsubj
20	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 field	conj
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	20 turn	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 follow	mark
23	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 turn	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sun	det
25	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 follow	obj
26	across	across	ADP	_	28 sky	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sky	det
28	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 follow	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 field	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a solar farm	a field		of panels with sheep	tree rules
2	graze	gerund	sheep not said here			between farms = farm	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	present	some panels			slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	follow	to-infinitive	some panels not said here	the Sun	the sky		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sun=Theme across sky=Trajectory

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:technology:033-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy.lesson:12.

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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