--- title: Scientists still argue about whether Saturn's rings are young or as… — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists still argue about whether Saturn's rings are young or as old as Saturn itself. Who acts: Scientists, rings. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [Saturn and its rings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/) / 13 # Saturn and its rings, sentence 13 Scientists still argue about whether Saturn's rings are young or as old as Saturn itself. **Who acts:** Scientists, rings · **What happens:** argue, be 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 (Scientists, rings), 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:13 # text = Scientists still argue about whether Saturn's rings are young or as old as Saturn itself. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 5 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 Saturn Saturn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Saturn Saturn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Scientists | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Saturn's rings | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Saturn's rings *not said here* | | | | | as Saturn planet | tree rules | 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. **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:13`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Saturn and its rings, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/12/) - next →: [Saturn and its rings, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/)