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title: Little Enceladus is like a garden sprinkler made of ice: jets of wat… — Saturn's moons · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Enceladus is like a garden sprinkler made of ice: jets of water burst from cracks at its south pole, from an ocean hidden underneath, and the spray feeds one of Saturn's rings. Who acts: Little Enceladus, jets, spray. A sentence of the lesson «Saturn's moons» of the space course of Mova's pri
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# Saturn's moons, sentence 3

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Little Enceladus is like a garden sprinkler made of ice: jets of water burst from cracks at its south pole, from an ocean hidden underneath, and the spray feeds one of Saturn's rings.

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**Who acts:** Little Enceladus, jets, spray · **What happens:** be, make, burst, hide, feed · **To what, where:** garden sprinkler, cracks, ocean, one

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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 (Little Enceladus, jets, spray), 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:3
# text = Little Enceladus is like a garden sprinkler made of ice: jets of water burst from cracks at its south pole, from an ocean hidden underneath, and the spray feeds one of Saturn's rings.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Enceladus	Enceladus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sprinkler	sprinkler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	jets	jet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	burst	burst	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	south	south	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present | Little Enceladus |  |  |  |  | like a garden sprinkler | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a garden sprinkler *not said here* |  |  |  | of ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **burst** | present | jets of water |  |  | cracks |  | at water's south pole | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pole=Location |
| 4 | **hide** | participle |  | a ocean *not said here* |  |  |  | underneath *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **feed** | present | the spray | one of Saturn's rings |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |

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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:013-saturns-moons.lesson:3`.

**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): R8-pos-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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