Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★, sentence 17
A Mars rover drives itself short distances because radio signals take minutes to travel between Mars and Earth.
Who acts: Mars rover, radio signals · What happens: drive, take, travel · To what, where: rover, Mars
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: transport, building and 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 (Mars rover, radio signals), 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 rover | det |
| 2 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rover | compound |
| 3 | rover | rover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drives | nsubj |
| 4 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 drives | obj |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distances | amod |
| 7 | distances | distance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drives | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 9 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 signals | compound |
| 10 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | nsubj |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drives | advcl |
| 12 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 travel | mark |
| 14 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | advcl |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 Mars | case |
| 16 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 travel | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Earth | cc |
| 18 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mars | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drives | 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 | drive | present | a Mars rover | rover | short distances obl | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme itself=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | take | present | radio signals | minute | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | radio signals not said here | Mars and Earth | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between mars=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:043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.lesson:17.
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 ×1, 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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