Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky, sentence 8
Polaris, the North Star, stays almost still in the sky, and the other stars seem to circle around it.
Who acts: Polaris, other stars · What happens: stay, seem, circle · 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 (Polaris, other stars), 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 | Polaris | Polaris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stays | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Polaris | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Star | det |
| 4 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Star | compound |
| 5 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Polaris | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Polaris | punct |
| 7 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 still | advmod |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 stays | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sky | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sky | det |
| 12 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stays | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seem | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seem | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stars | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stars | amod |
| 17 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 seem | nsubj |
| 18 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stays | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 circle | mark |
| 20 | circle | circle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seem | xcomp |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 circle | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | Polaris | the sky | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location | |||
| 2 | seem | present | the other stars | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | circle | to-infinitive | the other stars not said here | sky | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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:8.
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.
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