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title: Neptune was found in 1846 after mathematicians predicted where it mu… — Uranus and Neptune · tree and pragmatics
description: Neptune was found in 1846 after mathematicians predicted where it must be from the way it tugged on Uranus. Who acts: mathematicians, planet. A sentence of the lesson «Uranus and Neptune» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uranus and Neptune, sentence 12

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Neptune was found in 1846 after mathematicians predicted where it must be from the way it tugged on Uranus.

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**Who acts:** mathematicians, planet · **What happens:** find, predict, be, tug · **To what, where:** Neptune, 1846, way, Uranus

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Uranus and Neptune» 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 (mathematicians, planet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:014-uranus-and-neptune.lesson:12
# text = Neptune was found in 1846 after mathematicians predicted where it must be from the way it tugged on Uranus.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 014-uranus-and-neptune.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
1	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1846	1846	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	mathematicians	mathematician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
8	predicted	predict	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tugged	tug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **find** | past · passive |  | Neptune |  | 1846 |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **predict** | past | mathematicians |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | must | planet |  |  | the way |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tug** | past | planet | the way *not said here* |  | Uranus |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent way=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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**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:014-uranus-and-neptune.lesson:12`.

**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. **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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