Day and night, shadows and sundials, sentence 19
Near the equator, as in Singapore, day and night are each about 12 hours long all year.
Who acts: day · What happens: be · To what, where: equator
This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night, shadows and sundials» 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 (day), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 equator | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 equator | det |
| 3 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 long | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 equator | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 Singapore | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Singapore | case |
| 7 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 equator | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 long | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 night | cc |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | conj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 long | cop |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 hours | det |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 12 | advmod |
| 15 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 hours | nummod |
| 16 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 long | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 long | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 long | 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 | is | present | day and night | the equator as Singapore | hour; year | long 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:118-day-night-shadows-sundials.lesson:19.
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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