Thinking like an astronomer, sentence 4

An astronomer cannot travel to the stars, so he reasons from what he sees: shadows, shapes, timings and the rules of light and gravity.

Who acts: astronomer, light · What happens: not travel, reason, see, rule · To what, where: stars, shadows

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: who acts (astronomer, light), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 astronomer	det
2	astronomer	astronomer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 travel	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 travel	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 travel	advmod
5	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 stars	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stars	det
8	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 travel	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reasons	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 reasons	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reasons	nsubj
12	reasons	reason	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 travel	parataxis
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 sees	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 sees	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sees	nsubj
16	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 reasons	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 shadows	punct
18	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sees	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shapes	punct
20	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shadows	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 timings	punct
22	timings	timing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shadows	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rules	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rules	det
25	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shadows	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 light	case
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rules	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gravity	cc
29	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 light	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 travel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not travel	can	a astronomer		the stars	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to star=Destination
2	reason	present	astronomer			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see	present	astronomer	shadows and shapes and timings and the rules of light and gravity		tree rules
4	rule		light and gravity			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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:4.

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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