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title: Space is almost empty, so sound cannot travel through it; space is s… — Earth from space · tree and pragmatics
description: Space is almost empty, so sound cannot travel through it; space is silent, and the explosion noises in films are made up. Who acts: Space, sound. A sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Earth from space, sentence 14

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Space is almost empty, so sound cannot travel through it; space is silent, and the explosion noises in films are made up.

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**Who acts:** Space, sound · **What happens:** be, not travel, make up · **To what, where:** space, explosion noises

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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 (Space, sound), 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:14
# text = Space is almost empty, so sound cannot travel through it; space is silent, and the explosion noises in films are made up.
# 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	Space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Space |  |  |  |  | almost, empty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **travel** | can | sound |  |  | space |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present | space |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make up** | present · passive |  | the explosion noises in films |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |

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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:myths:013-earth-from-space.lesson:14`.

**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/).

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