Seasons, terms and holidays, sentence 5
Astronomers (scientists who study the sky) start the seasons at the equinoxes and solstices: spring at about 20 March, summer at the longest day, about 21 June.
Who acts: scientists, Astronomers · What happens: study, start · To what, where: sky, equinoxes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» 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 (scientists, Astronomers), 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 | Astronomers | astronomer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 start | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 scientists | punct |
| 3 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Astronomers | appos |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 study | nsubj |
| 5 | study | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scientists | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 study | obj |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 scientists | punct |
| 9 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seasons | det |
| 11 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 start | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 equinoxes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 equinoxes | det |
| 14 | equinoxes | equinox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 start | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 solstices | cc |
| 16 | solstices | solstice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 equinoxes | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 spring | punct |
| 18 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 equinoxes | nmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 March | case |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 20 | advmod |
| 21 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 March | nummod |
| 22 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 spring | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 summer | punct |
| 24 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spring | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 day | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 day | det |
| 27 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 day | amod |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spring | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 21 | punct |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 21 | advmod |
| 31 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 June | nummod |
| 32 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 summer | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | present | scientists | the sky | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Topic | ||||
| 2 | start | present | Astronomers | the equinoxes spring at 20 March at the longest day and summer 21 June and solstices | season | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:5.
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, R6-punct-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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