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title: The Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017 and finished… — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017 and finished by diving into Saturn on purpose. Who acts: Cassini spacecraft. 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 16

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The Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017 and finished by diving into Saturn on purpose.

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**Who acts:** Cassini spacecraft · **What happens:** orbit, finish, dive · **To what, where:** Saturn, 2004

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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 (Cassini spacecraft), 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:16
# text = The Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017 and finished by diving into Saturn on purpose.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Cassini	Cassini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spacecraft	spacecraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	orbited	orbit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	diving	dive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **orbit** | past | the Cassini spacecraft | Saturn |  | 2004 to 2017 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish** | past | the Cassini spacecraft *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **dive** | gerund | the Cassini spacecraft *not said here* |  |  | Saturn |  | on purpose | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into saturn=Location |

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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:16`.

**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): R6-punct-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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