The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator, sentence 9
The equator is an imaginary line around the Earth, halfway between the poles.
Who acts: equator · What happens: be · To what, where: imaginary line, Earth
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 (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 | 2 equator | det |
| 2 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 line | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 line | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 line | det |
| 5 | imaginary | imaginary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 line | amod |
| 6 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 Earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Earth | det |
| 9 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 line | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 poles | punct |
| 11 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 14 poles | advmod |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 poles | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 poles | det |
| 14 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 line | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 line | 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 equator | a imaginary line | the Earth | between the poles | 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:9.
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): R7-rel-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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