The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator, sentence 6
The distance around the Earth at the equator is about 40 thousand kilometres.
Who acts: distance · What happens: be · To what, where: thousand kilometres
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 (distance), 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 distance | det |
| 2 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kilometres | nsubj |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 Earth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Earth | det |
| 5 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 distance | nmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 equator | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 equator | det |
| 8 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 distance | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 kilometres | cop |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 thousand | advmod |
| 11 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 thousand | compound |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 kilometres | nummod |
| 13 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 kilometres | 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 distance around the Earth at the equator | thousand kilometres | 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:6.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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