The Moon's month and the year round the Sun, sentence 25
People long ago counted months by the Moon for farming and festivals, because its changing shape is easy to see and count; the word "month" comes from "moon".
Who acts: People, changing shape, word · What happens: count, change, be, see, come · To what, where: moon
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 (People, changing shape, word), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 counted | nsubj |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ago | advmod |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 counted | advmod |
| 4 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 counted | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Moon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moon | det |
| 8 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 counted | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 farming | case |
| 10 | farming | farming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counted | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 festivals | cc |
| 12 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 farming | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 easy | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 easy | mark |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shape | nmod:poss |
| 16 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 shape | amod |
| 17 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 easy | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 easy | cop |
| 19 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 counted | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 easy | csubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 count | cc |
| 23 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 see | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 comes | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 word | det |
| 26 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 comes | nsubj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 month | punct |
| 28 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 word | appos |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 month | punct |
| 30 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 counted | parataxis |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 moon | case |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 moon | punct |
| 33 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 comes | obl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 moon | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | People | month | by the Moon; for farming and festivals; ago property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | change | gerund | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Moon's changing shape | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | count | infinitive | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | come | present | the word | moon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from moon=Initial_Location |
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:25.
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, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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