Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky, sentence 5

For example, the brightest point in the evening sky after the Moon is often Venus, called the evening star, though it is a planet that shines by reflecting sunlight.

Who acts: brightest point, Venus, point, planet · What happens: be, call, shine, reflect · To what, where: Venus, evening star, planet, sunlight · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brightest point, Venus, point, 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Venus	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 point	det
5	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 point	amod
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Venus	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sky	compound
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 point	nmod
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 Moon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Moon	det
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sky	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Venus	cop
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 Venus	advmod
16	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 Venus	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 star	det
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 star	compound
21	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 planet	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 planet	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 planet	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 planet	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 planet	det
27	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Venus	advcl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 shines	nsubj
29	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 planet	acl:relcl
30	by	by	SCONJ	_	31 reflecting	mark
31	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 shines	advcl
32	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reflecting	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 Venus	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the brightest point in the evening sky after the Moon	Venus	for example; often property	tree rules
2	call	participle	Venus not said here	the evening star		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	point	a planet		tree rules
4	shine	present	a planet			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	reflect	gerund	a planet not said here	sunlight		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:070-the-night-sky.lesson:5.

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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