The Moon and its phases, sentence 13
The phases are not caused by the shadow of the Earth.
Who acts: shadow · What happens: not cause, shadow · To what, where: phases, Earth
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 (shadow), 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 phases | det |
| 2 | phases | phase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 caused | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 caused | advmod |
| 5 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 shadow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shadow | det |
| 8 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caused | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Earth | det |
| 11 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shadow | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cause | present · passive | the shadow of the Earth | the phases | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shadow | the Earth | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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:003-the-moon-and-its-phases.lesson:13.
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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