The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator, sentence 14
A ship sailing away disappears from the bottom up because the Earth's surface curves.
Who acts: ship · What happens: sail away, disappear up, curve · To what, where: bottom
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 (ship), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disappears | nsubj |
| 3 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 ship | acl |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 sailing | advmod |
| 5 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 bottom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottom | det |
| 8 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disappears | obl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 disappears | compound:prt |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 curves | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Earth | det |
| 12 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 surface | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Earth | case |
| 14 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 curves | compound |
| 15 | curves | curve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 disappears | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disappears | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail away | gerund | a ship not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | disappear up | present | a ship | the bottom | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from bottom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | curve | present | a ship not said here | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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:14.
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): no change. 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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