Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky, sentence 16
A shooting star is not a star but a meteor: a speck of space rock burning up in the air.
Who acts: shooting star, speck · What happens: not be, burn up · To what, where: star, air
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 (shooting star, speck), 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 | 3 star | det |
| 2 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | compound |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 star | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 star | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 star | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 star | det |
| 7 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 meteor | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 meteor | det |
| 10 | meteor | meteor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 star | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 speck | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 speck | det |
| 13 | speck | speck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 star | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rock | case |
| 15 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rock | compound |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speck | nmod |
| 17 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 speck | acl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 burning | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 air | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 air | det |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burning | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 star | 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 | not is a | present | a shooting star | a star but a meteor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn up | gerund | a speck of space rock not said here | the air | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
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:16.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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