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title: It is a gigantic ball of hot gas: if the Sun were a football, the Ea… — The Sun, our star · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a gigantic ball of hot gas: if the Sun were a football, the Earth would be a peppercorn about 25 metres away. Who acts: Sun, Earth. A sentence of the lesson «The Sun, our star» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sun, our star, sentence 1

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It is a gigantic ball of hot gas: if the Sun were a football, the Earth would be a peppercorn about 25 metres away.

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**Who acts:** Sun, Earth · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** gigantic ball, football, peppercorn

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Sun, our star» of the space 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 (Sun, Earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:001-the-sun-our-star.lesson:1
# text = It is a gigantic ball of hot gas: if the Sun were a football, the Earth would be a peppercorn about 25 metres away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 001-the-sun-our-star.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): R5-strong ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det
18	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	peppercorn	peppercorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 a** | present | Sun | a gigantic ball |  |  |  | of hot gas | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Sun | a football |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | would | the Earth | a peppercorn |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |

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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:space:001-the-sun-our-star.lesson:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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