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title: Saturn's rings are slowly losing material that falls into the planet. — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics
description: Saturn's rings are slowly losing material that falls into the planet. Who acts: rings, material. A sentence of the lesson «Saturn and its rings» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Saturn and its rings, sentence 12

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Saturn's rings are slowly losing material that falls into the planet.

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**Who acts:** rings, material · **What happens:** lose, fall · **To what, where:** material, planet

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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 (rings, material), 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:12
# text = Saturn's rings are slowly losing material that falls into the planet.
# 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): no change
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **lose** | present · progressive | Saturn's rings | material |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fall** | present | material |  |  |  |  | into the planet *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into planet=Result |

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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:12`.

**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): no change. **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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