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title: Uranus lies on its side, tipped over by about 98 degrees, so it roll… — Uranus and Neptune · tree and pragmatics
description: Uranus lies on its side, tipped over by about 98 degrees, so it rolls round the Sun like a ball rolling along the floor rather than a spinning top. Who acts: Uranus, methane, ball. A sentence of the lesson «Uranus and Neptune» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Uranus and Neptune, sentence 2

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Uranus lies on its side, tipped over by about 98 degrees, so it rolls round the Sun like a ball rolling along the floor rather than a spinning top.

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**Who acts:** Uranus, methane, ball · **What happens:** lie, tip over, roll, spin · **To what, where:** side, ball, Sun, floor

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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 (Uranus, methane, ball), 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:2
# text = Uranus lies on its side, tipped over by about 98 degrees, so it rolls round the Sun like a ball rolling along the floor rather than a spinning top.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	tipped	tip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	98	98	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	round	round	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
22	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound
23	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod
27	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	31	cc	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | Uranus |  |  | methane's side |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 2 | **tip over** | participle |  | methane's side *not said here* |  |  |  | by 98 degrees; over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by degree=Destination |
| 3 | **roll** | present | methane | a ball |  | the Sun |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round sun=Trajectory |
| 4 | **roll** | gerund | a ball *not said here* |  |  | the floor rather a spinning top |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along floor=Trajectory |
| 5 | **spin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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: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, R7-rel-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/).

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