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title: Saturn is a giant ball of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, about nin… — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics
description: Saturn is a giant ball of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, about nine times wider than the Earth, and so light for its size that it would float in an impossibly huge bath. Who acts: Saturn, size. A sentence of the lesson «Saturn and its rings» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Saturn and its rings, sentence 0

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Saturn is a giant ball of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, about nine times wider than the Earth, and so light for its size that it would float in an impossibly huge bath.

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**Who acts:** Saturn, size · **What happens:** be, float · **To what, where:** giant ball, huge bath

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saturn and its rings» 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 (Saturn, size), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:012-saturn-and-its-rings.lesson:0
# text = Saturn is a giant ball of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, about nine times wider than the Earth, and so light for its size that it would float in an impossibly huge bath.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 012-saturn-and-its-rings.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
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	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hydrogen	hydrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	helium	helium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	impossibly	impossibly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	.	.	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 | Saturn | a giant ball and hydrogen and helium |  |  |  | of gas | tree rules |
| 2 | **float** | would | size |  |  | a huge bath |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bath=Trajectory |

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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:012-saturn-and-its-rings.lesson:0`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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