Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 16
Shadows are longest in the morning and evening and shortest around midday.
Who acts: Shadows · What happens: be · To what, where: midday
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, shadows and colours» 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 (Shadows), 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 | Shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 longest | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 longest | cop |
| 3 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 longest | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 evening | cc |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 morning | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shortest | cc |
| 10 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 longest | conj |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 midday | case |
| 12 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shortest | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 longest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Shadows | morning | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Shadows not said here | midday | tree rules |
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:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.lesson:16.
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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