Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy, sentence 12
Shadows are longest when the Sun is low and shortest when it is highest in the sky.
Who acts: Shadows, Sun. · What happens: be · To what, where: sky
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy» 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 (Shadows, Sun.), 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 | Shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 low | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 low | cop |
| 3 | longest | long | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 low | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 low | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun | det |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 low | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 low | cop |
| 8 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shortest | cc |
| 10 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 low | conj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 highest | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 highest | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 highest | cop |
| 14 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 shortest | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 highest | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 low | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Shadows | long, low property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Shadows not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Sun. = sun | the sky | high property | 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:060-reasoning-energy-technology.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): 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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