The Moon and its phases, sentence 0

The Moon is a ball of rock that goes around the Earth about once a month; it makes no light of its own and shines only because sunlight falls on it.

Who acts: Moon, rock, sunlight · What happens: be, go, make, shine, fall · To what, where: ball, Earth, light, Moon

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon and its phases» 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, rock, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ball	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ball	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ball	det
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 rock	case
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ball	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rock	acl:relcl
10	around	around	ADP	_	12 Earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Earth	det
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 goes	obl
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 once	advmod
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 goes	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 month	det
16	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 once	obl:unmarked
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 makes	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 makes	nsubj
19	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ball	parataxis
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 light	det
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 makes	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 own	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 own	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 light	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shines	cc
26	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 makes	conj
27	only	only	ADV	_	30 falls	advmod
28	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	30 falls	mark
29	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 falls	nsubj
30	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 shines	advcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 falls	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ball	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Moon	a ball		of rock	tree rules
2	go	present	rock		the Earth	once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around earth=Initial_Location
3	make	present	Moon	no light of Moon's own			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material light=Product
4	shine	present	Moon not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	present	sunlight		Moon		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=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:003-the-moon-and-its-phases.lesson:0.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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