--- title: The Wall is long but narrow and the same colour as the land around i… — Earth from space · tree and pragmatics description: The Wall is long but narrow and the same colour as the land around it, and astronauts, even China's first astronaut Yang Liwei, said they couldn't pick it out with their eyes; city lights at night are far easier. Who acts: Wall, astronauts. A sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» of the myths co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Earth from space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/) / 2 # Earth from space, sentence 2 The Wall is long but narrow and the same colour as the land around it, and astronauts, even China's first astronaut Yang Liwei, said they couldn't pick it out with their eyes; city lights at night are far easier. **Who acts:** Wall, astronauts · **What happens:** be, say, not pick out · **To what, where:** Wall · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» of the myths 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 (Wall, astronauts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:013-earth-from-space.lesson:2 # text = The Wall is long but narrow and the same colour as the land around it, and astronauts, even China's first astronaut Yang Liwei, said they couldn't pick it out with their eyes; city lights at night are far easier. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 013-earth-from-space.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 around around ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 amod _ _ 24 astronaut astronaut NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 25 Yang Yang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 26 Liwei Liwei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 43 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 45 advmod _ _ 45 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 parataxis _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Wall | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the Wall *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Wall *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **pick out** | could | astronauts *= astronaut* | Wall | | | | with astronauts's eyes and city lights at night | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | easy, far *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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:myths:013-earth-from-space.lesson:2`. **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): R5-strong ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Earth from space, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/0/) - next →: [Earth from space, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/)