The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator, sentence 15
The Earth's shadow on the Moon is always round, which shows the Earth is a ball.
Who acts: shadow, Earth · What happens: be, show, shadow · To what, where: ball, Moon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (shadow, Earth), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Earth | case |
| 4 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 round | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Moon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Moon | det |
| 7 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shadow | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 round | cop |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | _ | 10 round | advmod |
| 10 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shows | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 shows | nsubj |
| 13 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 round | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Earth | det |
| 15 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ball | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ball | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ball | det |
| 18 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shows | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 round | 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 Earth's shadow on the Moon | always, round property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Earth | a ball | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shadow | the Earth | the Moon | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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:15.
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 ×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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