Eclipses, sentence 1
In a solar eclipse the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and its shadow falls on the Earth: for a few minutes the Sun is hidden and day turns almost into night, but only along a narrow strip of the Earth.
Who acts: Moon, shadow, day · What happens: pass, fall, hidden, turn, shadow · To what, where: solar eclipse, Earth, Sun
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eclipses» 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 (Moon, shadow, day), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 eclipse | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 eclipse | det |
| 3 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eclipse | amod |
| 4 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passes | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Moon | det |
| 6 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 passes | nsubj |
| 7 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 Sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 passes | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Earth | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Earth | det |
| 13 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sun | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 falls | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 falls | nsubj |
| 17 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 passes | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Earth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Earth | det |
| 20 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 falls | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 minutes | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 minutes | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 minutes | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 minutes | amod |
| 25 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hidden | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sun | det |
| 27 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 hidden | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 hidden | aux:pass |
| 29 | hidden | hidden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 passes | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 turns | cc |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turns | nsubj |
| 32 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 hidden | conj |
| 33 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 35 night | advmod |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 night | case |
| 35 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turns | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 strip | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 strip | cc |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 42 strip | advmod |
| 39 | along | along | ADP | _ | 42 strip | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 strip | det |
| 41 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 strip | amod |
| 42 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turns | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Earth | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Earth | det |
| 45 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 strip | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | the Moon | a solar eclipse | between the Sun and the Earth | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in eclipse=Location | |||
| 2 | fall | present | Moon's shadow | the Earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location | ||||
| 3 | hidden | present · passive | the Sun | minute | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn | present | day | night | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shadow | Moon | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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:008-eclipses.lesson:1.
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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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