The Sun as a star and the stars, sentence 2
Light from the Sun takes about eight minutes to reach us, while light from the next nearest star takes more than four years.
Who acts: Light · What happens: take, reach · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Sun as a star and the stars» 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 (Light), 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 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Sun | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sun | det |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Light | nmod |
| 5 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 eight | advmod |
| 7 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 takes | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 reach | mark |
| 10 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 takes | advcl |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 reach | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 takes | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 takes | mark |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 takes | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 star | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 star | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 star | amod |
| 18 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 star | amod |
| 19 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 light | nmod |
| 20 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 takes | advcl |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 23 four | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 more | fixed |
| 23 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 takes | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Light from the Sun | minute | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reach | to-infinitive | Light from the Sun not said here | us | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | present | light from the next nearest star | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:005-the-sun-and-the-stars.lesson:2.
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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