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title: Saturn takes about 29.5 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and its winds… — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics
description: Saturn takes about 29.5 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and its winds reach about 1,800 kilometres per hour, many times faster than the strongest hurricanes on Earth, which reach about 300. Who acts: Saturn, winds, strongest hurricanes, Sun. A sentence of the lesson «Saturn and its rings» of the space
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# Saturn and its rings, sentence 15

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Saturn takes about 29.5 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and its winds reach about 1,800 kilometres per hour, many times faster than the strongest hurricanes on Earth, which reach about 300.

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**Who acts:** Saturn, winds, strongest hurricanes, Sun · **What happens:** take, orbit, reach, wind · **To what, where:** Sun, 1,800 kilometres, 300

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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, winds, strongest hurricanes, Sun), 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:15
# text = Saturn takes about 29.5 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and its winds reach about 1,800 kilometres per hour, many times faster than the strongest hurricanes on Earth, which reach about 300.
# 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 ×3
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	29.5	29.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	orbit	orbit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	1,800	1,800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl:unmarked
19	per	per	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	advcl	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:acl:relcl
34	about	about	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **take** | present | Saturn |  |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **orbit** | to-infinitive | Saturn *not said here* | the Sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | present | Sun's winds | 1,800 kilometres |  |  | per hour |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | present | the strongest hurricanes on Earth | 300 |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 300=Theme |
| 5 | **wind** |  | Sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:15`.

**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 ×3. **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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