Day and night, shadows and sundials, sentence 8
Near the poles the Sun can stay up for weeks in summer, while in Singapore, near the equator, day and night are each about 12 hours all year.
Who acts: Sun, day · What happens: stay up, be · To what, where: poles, 12 hours, Singapore
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, 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 poles | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 poles | det |
| 3 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stay | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sun | det |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | aux |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 stay | compound:prt |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 weeks | case |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stay | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 summer | case |
| 12 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Singapore | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 hours | mark |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Singapore | case |
| 16 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 hours | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 equator | punct |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 equator | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 equator | det |
| 20 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Singapore | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 day | punct |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hours | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 night | cc |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 day | conj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 hours | cop |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 hours | det |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 12 | advmod |
| 28 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 hours | nummod |
| 29 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stay | advcl |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 year | det |
| 31 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hours | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | 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 | stay up | can | the Sun | the poles | summer; week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near pole=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | day and night | each 12 hours | Singapore near the equator | year | 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: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): 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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