--- title: Picture a sheet of paper as wide as a football pitch: Saturn's rings… — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a sheet of paper as wide as a football pitch: Saturn's rings are even flatter than that, about 280,000 kilometres across but usually only about 10 metres thick. Who acts: you, rings. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:2 # text = Picture a sheet of paper as wide as a football pitch: Saturn's rings are even flatter than that, about 280,000 kilometres across but usually only about 10 metres thick. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 wide wide ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 pitch pitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 Saturn Saturn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 flatter flat ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 parataxis _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 280,000 280,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl:unmarked 25 across across ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 usually usually ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 28 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a sheet of paper | | | | as a football pitch; wide *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme as pitch=Attribute | | 2 | **is** | present | Saturn's rings | | | | | than that; across, flat *property* | 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:2`. **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 ×3, 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/1/) - next →: [Saturn and its rings, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/)