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title: Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper belt, a huge ring of icy bodies, and… — Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets · tree and pragmatics
description: Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper belt, a huge ring of icy bodies, and Pluto is one of the biggest of them, which is why it was called a dwarf planet in 2006: it shares its path with many similar objects. Who acts: Kuiper belt, Pluto, belt. A sentence of the lesson «Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort clo
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# Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets, sentence 0

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Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper belt, a huge ring of icy bodies, and Pluto is one of the biggest of them, which is why it was called a dwarf planet in 2006: it shares its path with many similar objects.

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**Who acts:** Kuiper belt, Pluto, belt · **What happens:** lie, be, call, share · **To what, where:** Neptune, one, belt, 2006, path · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets» 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 (Kuiper belt, Pluto, belt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:015-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets.lesson:0
# text = Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper belt, a huge ring of icy bodies, and Pluto is one of the biggest of them, which is why it was called a dwarf planet in 2006: it shares its path with many similar objects.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 015-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Kuiper	Kuiper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	shares	share	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
45	.	.	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 | **lie** | present | the Kuiper belt |  |  | Neptune |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond neptune=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Pluto | one |  |  |  | of the biggest | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | past · passive |  | belt |  | 2006 |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **share** | present | belt | belt's path |  |  |  | with many similar objects | 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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**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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