Eclipses, sentence 14
Eclipses do not happen every month because the Moon's path around the Earth is slightly tilted.
Who acts: Eclipses · What happens: not happen, tilt · To what, where: path
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 (Eclipses), 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 | Eclipses | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 happen | advmod |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 month | det |
| 6 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happen | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 tilted | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Moon | det |
| 9 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 path | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Moon | case |
| 11 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tilted | nsubj |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 Earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Earth | det |
| 14 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 path | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tilted | aux:pass |
| 16 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 17 tilted | advmod |
| 17 | tilted | tilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 happen | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not happen | present · do-support | Eclipses | month | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tilt | present · passive | the Moon's path around the Earth | slightly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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:008-eclipses.lesson:14.
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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