Thinking like an astronomer, sentence 15
Stars are spread out very thinly, with huge empty spaces between them.
What happens: spread out · To what, where: Stars
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an astronomer» of the world 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: 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 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | aux:pass |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 spread | compound:prt |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 thinly | advmod |
| 6 | thinly | thinly | ADV | _ | 3 spread | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spaces | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 spaces | case |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spaces | amod |
| 10 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spaces | amod |
| 11 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | obl |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spaces | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | present · passive | Stars | with huge empty spaces between spaces; thinly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with space=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:world:010-reasoning-about-space.lesson:15.
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): no change. 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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