The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator, sentence 0

The Earth is a ball, very slightly flattened at the top and bottom; it looks flat to us only because it is so big and we see a tiny part of it.

Who acts: Earth, it, we · What happens: be, flatten, look, see · To what, where: ball, top, us, tiny part

This is a sentence of the lesson «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» 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, it, we), 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 Earth	det
2	Earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ball	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ball	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ball	det
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flattened	punct
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 slightly	advmod
8	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	9 flattened	advmod
9	flattened	flatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ball	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 top	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 top	det
12	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flattened	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bottom	cc
14	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 top	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 looks	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looks	nsubj
17	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 flattened	conj
18	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looks	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 looks	obl
21	only	only	ADV	_	26 big	advmod
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 big	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 big	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 big	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 big	advmod
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looks	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 see	cc
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
29	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 big	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 part	det
31	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 part	amod
32	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 part	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ball	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Earth	a ball				tree rules
2	flatten	participle		a ball not said here		the top and bottom	slightly property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	look	present	it		us		flat property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to we=Experiencer
4	is	present	Earth				big property	tree rules
5	see	present	we	a tiny part of Earth				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus

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:007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×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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