Eclipses, sentence 12
During a total lunar eclipse the Moon often looks red, because a little sunlight is bent through the Earth's air onto it.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: look, bend · To what, where: little sunlight, air
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), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 5 eclipse | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 eclipse | det |
| 3 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eclipse | amod |
| 4 | lunar | lunar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eclipse | amod |
| 5 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looks | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Moon | det |
| 7 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 looks | nsubj |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 looks | advmod |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looks | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bent | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 bent | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sunlight | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sunlight | amod |
| 15 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bent | aux:pass |
| 17 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 looks | advcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 air | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Earth | det |
| 20 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 air | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Earth | case |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bent | obl |
| 23 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bent | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the Moon | during a total lunar eclipse | often, red property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | bend | present · passive | a little sunlight | the Earth's air | onto eclipse | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme through air=Location |
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:12.
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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