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title: Only twelve people have walked on the Moon; for a long time even few… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only twelve people have walked on the Moon; for a long time even fewer had reached the deepest point of the ocean, but by 2022 more than twenty people had been there, most of them since 2019. Who acts: twelve people, fewer, twenty people. A sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant sq
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# The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 15

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Only twelve people have walked on the Moon; for a long time even fewer had reached the deepest point of the ocean, but by 2022 more than twenty people had been there, most of them since 2019.

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**Who acts:** twelve people, fewer, twenty people · **What happens:** walk, reach, be, point · **To what, where:** Moon, deepest point, ocean

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» of the biology 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 (twelve people, fewer, twenty people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:15
# text = Only twelve people have walked on the Moon; for a long time even fewer had reached the deepest point of the ocean, but by 2022 more than twenty people had been there, most of them since 2019.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.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 ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
34	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
36	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	since	since	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present · perfect | twelve people |  |  | the Moon |  | by 2022  most of eyes since 2019 | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Trajectory |
| 2 | **reach** | past · perfect | fewer | the deepest point of the ocean |  |  | time |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | twenty people |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | the ocean |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:15`.

**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 ×1. **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/).

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