Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky, sentence 4

A planet looks like a bright star, but over weeks it slowly wanders among the constellations, because it is much nearer and goes around the Sun; the word planet comes from the Greek for wanderer.

Who acts: planet, word planet · What happens: look, wander, be, go, come · To what, where: constellations, Sun, Greek

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 (planet, word planet), 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	2 planet	det
2	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 star	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 star	det
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 star	amod
7	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanders	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 wanders	cc
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 weeks	case
11	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wanders	obl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanders	nsubj
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 wanders	advmod
14	wanders	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	conj
15	among	among	ADP	_	17 constellations	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 constellations	det
17	constellations	constellation	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wanders	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 nearer	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 nearer	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 nearer	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 nearer	cop
22	much	much	ADV	_	23 nearer	advmod
23	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 wanders	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 goes	cc
25	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 nearer	conj
26	around	around	ADP	_	28 Sun	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Sun	det
28	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 goes	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 comes	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 planet	det
31	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 planet	compound
32	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 comes	nsubj
33	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	parataxis
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 Greek	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Greek	det
36	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 comes	obl
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 wanderer	case
38	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Greek	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a planet			like a bright star	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	wander	present	planet	the constellations	week	slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among constellation=Trajectory
3	is	present	planet			near property	tree rules
4	go	present	planet not said here	the Sun			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around sun=Initial_Location
5	come	present	the word planet	the Greek for wanderer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from greek=Initial_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:4.

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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