The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator, sentence 1

The two ends of the Earth's axis are the North Pole and the South Pole, and the equator is an imaginary line around the middle, halfway between them.

Who acts: two ends, equator · What happens: be · To what, where: North Pole, imaginary line, middle

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 (two ends, equator), 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	3 ends	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ends	nummod
3	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Pole	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 axis	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 axis	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Earth	case
8	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Pole	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pole	det
11	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Pole	compound
12	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Pole	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Pole	det
15	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Pole	compound
16	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Pole	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 line	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 line	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 equator	det
20	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 line	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 line	cop
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 line	det
23	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 line	amod
24	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Pole	conj
25	around	around	ADP	_	27 middle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 middle	det
27	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 line	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 them	punct
29	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	31 them	advmod
30	between	between	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 line	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Pole	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	present	the two ends of the Earth's axis	the North Pole and the South Pole and a imaginary line					tree rules
2	is a	present	the equator	a imaginary line		the middle	between ends = end		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:007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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