Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy, sentence 6
In the morning and evening the Sun is low, so shadows are long; at midday the Sun is highest, so shadows are shortest.
Who acts: Sun, shadows · What happens: be · To what, where: midday
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), 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 low | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 evening | cc |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 low | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 low | cop |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 12 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 long | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 long | cop |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 low | parataxis |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 highest | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 midday | case |
| 17 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 highest | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sun | det |
| 19 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 highest | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 highest | cop |
| 21 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 low | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shortest | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 shortest | advmod |
| 24 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shortest | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 shortest | cop |
| 26 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 low | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 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 | the Sun | morning | low property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | shadows | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the Sun | midday | high property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | shadows | short 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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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