The seasons and the tilt of the axis, sentence 12
Sunlight that falls at a slant spreads over more ground, so it warms each piece of ground less.
Who acts: Sunlight · What happens: fall, spread, warm · To what, where: slant, more ground, piece
This is a sentence of the lesson «The seasons and the tilt of the axis» 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 (Sunlight), 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 | Sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spreads | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sunlight | acl:relcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 slant | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 slant | det |
| 6 | slant | slant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | obl |
| 7 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 ground | amod |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spreads | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 warms | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 warms | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 warms | nsubj |
| 14 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spreads | conj |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 piece | det |
| 16 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 warms | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piece | nmod |
| 19 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 warms | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spreads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Sunlight | a slant | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at slant=Location | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | Sunlight | more ground | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | warm | present | sunlight | each piece of ground | less property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent piece=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:002-seasons-and-the-tilt.lesson:12.
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): 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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