The Moon's month and the year round the Sun, sentence 17
A Moon that looks bigger each night is waxing; a Moon that looks smaller each night is waning.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: look, wax, wane
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon's month and the year round the Sun» 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 (Moon), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waxing | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Moon | acl:relcl |
| 5 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 looks | xcomp |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 waxing | aux |
| 9 | waxing | wax | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 waning | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Moon | det |
| 12 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waning | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 looks | nsubj |
| 14 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Moon | acl:relcl |
| 15 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 looks | xcomp |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smaller | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 waning | aux |
| 19 | waning | wane | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 waxing | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 waxing | 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 | look | present | a Moon | night | big property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | wax | present · progressive | a Moon | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | present | a Moon | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wane | present · progressive | a Moon | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:119-moon-month-and-year.lesson:17.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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