--- title: Mr Hughes taps the board, very sure: "The Great Wall of China is the… — Earth from space · tree and pragmatics description: Mr Hughes taps the board, very sure: "The Great Wall of China is the ONLY man-made thing you can see from space!" It's in quiz books, it sounds grand, and it began before anyone had even been to space. Who acts: Mr, Great Wall, you, Wall. A sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» of the myths cour --- [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/0/) [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/) / 0 # Earth from space, sentence 0 Mr Hughes taps the board, very sure: "The Great Wall of China is the ONLY man-made thing you can see from space!" It's in quiz books, it sounds grand, and it began before anyone had even been to space. **Who acts:** Mr, Great Wall, you, Wall, anyone · **What happens:** tap, make, be, see, sound, begin · **To what, where:** board, ONLY made thing, space, quiz books · **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 (Mr, Great Wall, you, Wall), 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:0 # text = Mr Hughes taps the board, very sure: "The Great Wall of China is the ONLY man-made thing you can see from space!" It's in quiz books, it sounds grand, and it began before anyone had even been to space. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Hughes Hughes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 taps tap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 11 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Great Great PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ _ 13 Wall Wall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 18 ONLY only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 19 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 30 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 quiz quiz NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 38 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 43 before before SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 45 nsubj _ _ 45 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 46 even even ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 47 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 49 cop _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tap** | present | Mr | the board | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Great Wall of China | the ONLY made thing | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | can | you | the ONLY made thing *not said here* | | space | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | Wall | | | quiz books | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sound** | present | Wall | | | | | grand *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **begin** | past | Wall | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **have** | past | anyone | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | participle | | | | | | to space | 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:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/16/) - next →: [Earth from space, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/)