Light, shadows and colours, sentence 1
The Moon is not a source: it only reflects sunlight.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: not be, reflect · To what, where: source, sunlight
This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, shadows and colours» 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), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 source | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 source | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 source | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 source | det |
| 6 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 reflects | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reflects | nsubj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 reflects | advmod |
| 10 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 source | parataxis |
| 11 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reflects | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 source | 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 | not is a | present | the Moon | a source | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reflect | present | Moon | sunlight | tree rules |
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:053-light.lesson:1.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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