Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 4
On the Moon an astronaut's mass stays the same but his weight is about six times smaller.
Who acts: mass, weight · What happens: stay, be · To what, where: same, Moon
This is a sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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 (mass, weight), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 Moon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stays | obl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 astronaut | det |
| 5 | astronaut | astronaut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mass | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 astronaut | case |
| 7 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stays | nsubj |
| 8 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 same | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stays | obj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 smaller | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 weight | nmod:poss |
| 13 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 smaller | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 smaller | cop |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 six | advmod |
| 16 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 times | nummod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 smaller | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 stays | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | a astronaut's mass | the same | the Moon | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme same=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | astronaut's weight | time | small property | 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:090-measuring-the-world.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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