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title: Venus, not Mercury, is the hottest planet, even though Mercury is cl… — I was wrong: changing your mind · tree and pragmatics
description: Venus, not Mercury, is the hottest planet, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun, because Venus's thick atmosphere (its blanket of gas) traps heat. Who acts: Venus, Mercury, thick atmosphere. A sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» of the myths course of Mova's primary school w
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# I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 15

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Venus, not Mercury, is the hottest planet, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun, because Venus's thick atmosphere (its blanket of gas) traps heat.

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**Who acts:** Venus, Mercury, thick atmosphere · **What happens:** be, trap · **To what, where:** hottest planet, heat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» 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, Mercury, thick atmosphere), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:15
# text = Venus, not Mercury, is the hottest planet, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun, because Venus's thick atmosphere (its blanket of gas) traps heat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.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	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hottest	hot	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
21	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
31	traps	trap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
32	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 a** | present | Venus  Mercury | the hottest planet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Mercury |  |  |  |  | to the Sun; close *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **trap** | present | Venus's thick atmosphere | heat |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient |

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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:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:15`.

**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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