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title: Its famous rings are not solid plates but countless chunks of water… — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics
description: Its famous rings are not solid plates but countless chunks of water ice, from tiny grains to pieces as big as a house, each going round Saturn like a tiny moon. Who acts: famous rings, each. A sentence of the lesson «Saturn and its rings» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Saturn and its rings, sentence 1

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Its famous rings are not solid plates but countless chunks of water ice, from tiny grains to pieces as big as a house, each going round Saturn like a tiny moon.

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**Who acts:** famous rings, each · **What happens:** not be, go round · **To what, where:** solid plates, Saturn

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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 (famous rings, each), 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:1
# text = Its famous rings are not solid plates but countless chunks of water ice, from tiny grains to pieces as big as a house, each going round Saturn like a tiny moon.
# 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
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chunks	chunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
28	round	round	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	Saturn	saturn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **not** **is a** | present | size's famous rings | solid plates but countless chunks of water ice and tiny grains to pieces and Saturn like a tiny moon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go round** | gerund | each | Saturn like a tiny moon *not said here* |  |  |  | round *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location saturn=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:012-saturn-and-its-rings.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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