Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky, sentence 7
The stars seem to move across the sky at night because the Earth turns.
Who acts: stars, Earth · What happens: seem, move, turn · To what, where: sky
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 (stars, Earth), 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 stars | det |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 move | mark |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 sky | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sky | det |
| 8 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obl |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 turns | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Earth | det |
| 13 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 turns | nsubj |
| 14 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed hedge=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the stars | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | the stars not said here | the sky | night | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across sky=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | turn | present | the Earth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:7.
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): no change. 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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