Wind and the air around the Earth, sentence 1
If the Earth were an apple, the air would be thinner than its skin.
Who acts: Earth, air · What happens: be · To what, where: apple
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind and the air around the Earth» 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 (Earth, air), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 apple | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Earth | det |
| 3 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 apple | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 apple | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 apple | det |
| 6 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thinner | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 apple | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thinner | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 thinner | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thinner | cop |
| 12 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 skin | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 skin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thinner | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thinner | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | the Earth | a apple | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | would | the air | than Earth's skin; thin 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:069-wind-and-the-atmosphere.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): 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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