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title: Venus is the hottest planet, around 465 °C, because its thick air tr… — The Moon, the planets and the stars · tree and pragmatics
description: Venus is the hottest planet, around 465 °C, because its thick air traps heat; Mercury has almost no air, so its night side gets very cold. Who acts: Venus, thick air, Mercury, night side. A sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the stars» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with
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# The Moon, the planets and the stars, sentence 10

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Venus is the hottest planet, around 465 °C, because its thick air traps heat; Mercury has almost no air, so its night side gets very cold.

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**Who acts:** Venus, thick air, Mercury, night side · **What happens:** be, trap, have, get · **To what, where:** hottest planet, heat, air

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the stars» 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 (Venus, thick air, Mercury, night side), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.lesson:10
# text = Venus is the hottest planet, around 465 °C, because its thick air traps heat; Mercury has almost no air, so its night side gets very cold.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.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): no change
1	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hottest	hot	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	465	465	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
9	°	°	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	traps	trap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
17	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Venus | the hottest planet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trap** | present | planet's thick air | heat |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | Mercury | no air |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | present | air's night side |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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