Day and night, shadows and sundials, sentence 4

At midday the Sun is highest and your shadow is short and stubby; in the morning and evening the Sun is low and your shadow stretches out like a giant's.

Who acts: Sun, shadow, your · What happens: be, stretch out, shadow · To what, where: midday

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 (Sun, shadow, your), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midday	case
2	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 highest	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 highest	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 highest	cop
6	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 short	cc
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shadow	nmod:poss
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 short	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 short	cop
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 highest	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stubby	cc
13	stubby	stubby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 short	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 low	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 morning	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 morning	det
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 low	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 evening	cc
19	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 morning	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sun	det
21	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 low	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 low	cop
23	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 highest	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stretches	cc
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 shadow	nmod:poss
26	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stretches	nsubj
27	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 low	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 stretches	compound:prt
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 giant	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 giant	det
31	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stretches	obl
32	's	's	PART	_	31 giant	case
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 highest	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun	midday		high property	tree rules
2	is	present	your shadow			short property	tree rules
3	be		your shadow not said here				tree rules
4	is	present	the Sun		morning	low property	tree rules
5	stretch out	present	your shadow			like a giant	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	shadow		your				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent
7	shadow		your				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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:118-day-night-shadows-sundials.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): R1-cc-next ×3. 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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