Rockets, satellites and astronauts, sentence 3
Big rockets are built in stages, and each empty stage drops away to make the rocket lighter.
Who acts: empty stage · What happens: build, drop away, make · To what, where: Big rockets, stages, rocket
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 (empty stage), 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 | 4 built | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 stages | case |
| 6 | stages | stage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drops | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drops | cc |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 stage | det |
| 10 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stage | amod |
| 11 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drops | nsubj |
| 12 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 drops | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 drops | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rocket | det |
| 17 | rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 make | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | Big rockets | stages | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | drop away | present | each empty stage | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | each empty stage not said here | the rocket | light property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rocket=Product |
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:3.
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): R2-punct-next ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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