--- title: Small moons such as Prometheus and Pandora shepherd the narrow F rin… — Saturn's moons · tree and pragmatics description: Small moons such as Prometheus and Pandora shepherd the narrow F ring, keeping its ice in a thin, sharp-edged band as sheepdogs keep sheep together. Who acts: Small moons, sheepdogs. A sentence of the lesson «Saturn's moons» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/16/) [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's moons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/) / 16 # Saturn's moons, sentence 16 Small moons such as Prometheus and Pandora shepherd the narrow F ring, keeping its ice in a thin, sharp-edged band as sheepdogs keep sheep together. **Who acts:** Small moons, sheepdogs · **What happens:** shepherd, keep, edge · **To what, where:** narrow F ring, ice, thin sharp edged band, sheep This is a sentence of the lesson «Saturn's moons» 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 (Small moons, sheepdogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:013-saturns-moons.lesson:16 # text = Small moons such as Prometheus and Pandora shepherd the narrow F ring, keeping its ice in a thin, sharp-edged band as sheepdogs keep sheep together. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 013-saturns-moons.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 moons moon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 5 case _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 5 Prometheus prometheus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Pandora pandora PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 shepherd shepherd VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 F f NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 advcl _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 19 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 edged edge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 sheepdogs sheepdog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advcl 28 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 together together ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shepherd** | present | Small moons such Prometheus and Pandora | the narrow F ring | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | Small moons such Prometheus and Pandora *not said here* | sponge's ice | | a thin sharp edged band | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ice=Theme in band=Location | | 3 | **edge** | participle | | | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | sheepdogs | sheep | | | | together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | 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:013-saturns-moons.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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's moons, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/15/) - next →: [Saturn's moons, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/)