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title: The Earth is about 150 million kilometres from the Sun, and sunlight… — The Sun, our star · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth is about 150 million kilometres from the Sun, and sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach us. Who acts: Earth, sunlight. 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 8

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The Earth is about 150 million kilometres from the Sun, and sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach us.

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**Who acts:** Earth, sunlight · **What happens:** be, take, reach · **To what, where:** million kilometres, Sun, us

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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 (Earth, sunlight), 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:8
# text = The Earth is about 150 million kilometres from the Sun, and sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach us.
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod:unmarked
18	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | the Earth | million kilometres |  | the Sun |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | sunlight |  |  |  | minute; second |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | sunlight *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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 ×2. **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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