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title: The distance to the centre of the Earth is about 6,370 km, a bit mor… — Inside the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: The distance to the centre of the Earth is about 6,370 km, a bit more than the distance from London to New York (about 5,600 km). Who acts: distance. A sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Inside the Earth, sentence 16

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The distance to the centre of the Earth is about 6,370 km, a bit more than the distance from London to New York (about 5,600 km).

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**Who acts:** distance · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 6,370 km

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» of the geography 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 (distance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:041-inside-the-earth.lesson:16
# text = The distance to the centre of the Earth is about 6,370 km, a bit more than the distance from London to New York (about 5,600 km).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 041-inside-the-earth.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	6,370	6,370	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	parataxis	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
24	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	5,600	5,600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the distance to the centre of the Earth | 6,370 km |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:geography:041-inside-the-earth.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): R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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