Rockets, satellites and astronauts, sentence 11
Big rockets drop their empty stages to become lighter.
Who acts: Big rockets · What happens: drop, become · To what, where: empty stages
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rockets, satellites and astronauts» 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 (Big rockets), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rockets | amod |
| 2 | rockets | rocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drop | nsubj |
| 3 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stages | nmod:poss |
| 5 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stages | amod |
| 6 | stages | stage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drop | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 become | mark |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drop | advcl |
| 9 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 become | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | Big rockets | engines's empty stages | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | to-infinitive | Big rockets not said here | light property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:071-rockets-satellites-astronauts.lesson:11.
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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