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title: Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants because, under hydrogen and… — Uranus and Neptune · tree and pragmatics
description: Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants because, under hydrogen and helium air, they are mostly water, ammonia and methane in hot, dense slushy forms. Who acts: Uranus. A sentence of the lesson «Uranus and Neptune» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Uranus and Neptune, sentence 5

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Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants because, under hydrogen and helium air, they are mostly water, ammonia and methane in hot, dense slushy forms.

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**Who acts:** Uranus · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** Uranus, water, hydrogen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:5
# text = Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants because, under hydrogen and helium air, they are mostly water, ammonia and methane in hot, dense slushy forms.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hydrogen	hydrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	helium	helium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ammonia	ammonia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	methane	methane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	slushy	slushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **call** | present · passive |  | Uranus and Neptune |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Uranus | water and ammonia in hot dense slushy forms and methane |  | hydrogen and helium and air |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |

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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:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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