Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky, sentence 0

On a dark, clear night far from city lights you can see a few thousand stars with your eyes alone; in a city, the glow of the lights hides most of them.

Who acts: you, glow, lights · What happens: see, hide, glow · To what, where: thousand stars, most, city

This is a sentence of the lesson «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky» 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 (you, glow, lights), 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	On	on	ADP	_	6 night	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 night	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dark	punct
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obl
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 night	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 lights	case
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lights	compound
10	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 far	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thousand	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thousand	amod
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 stars	nummod
17	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 see	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 eyes	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 see	obl
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 eyes	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 hides	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 city	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 city	det
25	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hides	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 city	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 glow	det
28	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hides	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 lights	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lights	det
31	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 glow	nmod
32	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 see	parataxis
33	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 hides	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 most	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	you	thousand stars		night	with your eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus
2	hide	present	the glow of the lights	most of lights	a city			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent most=Patient in city=Location
3	glow		the lights					nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent

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:070-the-night-sky.lesson:0.

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 ×2, 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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