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title: Since 2006 astronomers have called Pluto a dwarf planet, though some… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics
description: Since 2006 astronomers have called Pluto a dwarf planet, though some scientists still argue about the definition. Who acts: astronomers, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 14

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Since 2006 astronomers have called Pluto a dwarf planet, though some scientists still argue about the definition.

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**Who acts:** astronomers, scientists · **What happens:** call, argue · **To what, where:** Pluto · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» 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 (astronomers, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:14
# text = Since 2006 astronomers have called Pluto a dwarf planet, though some scientists still argue about the definition.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	astronomers	astronomer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	definition	definition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **call** | present · perfect | astronomers |  | Pluto |  | since 2006 |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pluto=Recipient |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | some scientists |  |  |  | still | about the definition | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about definition=Topic |

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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:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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): 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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