Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy, sentence 13

In the morning the Sun is in the east, so shadows point west; in the evening they point east.

Who acts: Sun, shadows, levers · What happens: be, point · To what, where: east

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 (Sun, shadows, levers), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 east	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 east	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 east	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 east	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 east	det
9	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 point	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 point	advmod
12	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 point	nsubj
13	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 east	parataxis
14	west	west	ADV	_	13 point	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 point	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 evening	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 evening	det
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 point	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 point	nsubj
20	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 point	conj
21	east	east	ADV	_	20 point	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 east	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun	the east	morning		tree rules
2	point	present	shadows			west property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	point	present	levers = lever		evening	east property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: 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:060-reasoning-energy-technology.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): R7-rel-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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