Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 4
Shadows change during the day because the Sun's position in the sky changes.
Who acts: Shadows, position · What happens: change
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, position), 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 | 2 change | nsubj |
| 2 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | during | during | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 change | obl |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 changes | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sun | det |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 position | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Sun | case |
| 10 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 changes | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sky | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 changes | det |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 position | nmod |
| 14 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 change | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Shadows | day | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | change | present | the Sun's position in sky | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.lesson:4.
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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