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title: Other moons are odd too: Mimas looks like the Death Star, Iapetus is… — Saturn's moons · tree and pragmatics
description: Other moons are odd too: Mimas looks like the Death Star, Iapetus is half black and half white, Hyperion is a tumbling sponge, and tiny shepherd moons herd the ice of the rings. Who acts: Other moons, Mimas, Iapetus, Hyperion. A sentence of the lesson «Saturn's moons» of the space course of Mova's p
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# Saturn's moons, sentence 4

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Other moons are odd too: Mimas looks like the Death Star, Iapetus is half black and half white, Hyperion is a tumbling sponge, and tiny shepherd moons herd the ice of the rings.

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**Who acts:** Other moons, Mimas, Iapetus, Hyperion, tiny shepherd moons · **What happens:** be, look, tumble, herd · **To what, where:** tumbling sponge, ice

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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 (Other moons, Mimas, Iapetus, Hyperion), 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:4
# text = Other moons are odd too: Mimas looks like the Death Star, Iapetus is half black and half white, Hyperion is a tumbling sponge, and tiny shepherd moons herd the ice of the 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Mimas	Mimas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	_	12	compound	_	_
12	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	Iapetus	Iapetus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	parataxis	_	_
17	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	20	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
22	Hyperion	Hyperion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	sponge	sponge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	herd	herd	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Other moons |  |  |  |  | odd *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | Mimas |  |  |  |  | like the Death Star | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | Iapetus |  |  |  |  | half *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Iapetus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tumble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **is a** | present | Hyperion | a tumbling sponge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **herd** | present | tiny shepherd moons | the ice of the rings |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ice=Patient |

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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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**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, 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.

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