Check the claim, not the person, sentence 14
The Moon's gravity pulling on the oceans is the main cause of the tides; the Sun causes smaller tides too.
Who acts: gravity, Sun · What happens: pull, be, cause · To what, where: main cause, smaller tides
This is a sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» 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 (gravity, Sun), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gravity | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Moon | case |
| 4 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cause | nsubj |
| 5 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 gravity | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 oceans | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oceans | det |
| 8 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulling | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cause | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cause | det |
| 11 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cause | amod |
| 12 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tides | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tides | det |
| 15 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cause | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 causes | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sun | det |
| 18 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 causes | nsubj |
| 19 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cause | parataxis |
| 20 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 tides | amod |
| 21 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 causes | obj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 causes | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | gerund | the Moon's gravity not said here | on the oceans | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on ocean=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Moon's gravity | the main cause | of the tides | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cause | present | the Sun | smaller tides | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tide=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:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.lesson:14.
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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