Thinking like an astronomer, sentence 8
Mass is the amount of matter in an object, and it is the same everywhere.
Who acts: Mass · What happens: be · To what, where: amount, object
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 (Mass), 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 | Mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amount | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 amount | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 amount | det |
| 4 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 matter | case |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amount | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 object | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 object | det |
| 9 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amount | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 same | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 same | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 same | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 same | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 same | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 amount | conj |
| 16 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 same | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 amount | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mass | the amount | a object | of matter | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | present | mass | everywhere, same property | tree rules |
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:8.
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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