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title: When New Horizons flew past in 2015, Pluto turned out to be a lively… — Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets · tree and pragmatics
description: When New Horizons flew past in 2015, Pluto turned out to be a lively world with a heart-shaped plain of nitrogen ice, mountains of water ice and a thin blue haze. Who acts: New Horizons, Pluto. A sentence of the lesson «Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets» of the space course of Mova's
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# Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets, sentence 1

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When New Horizons flew past in 2015, Pluto turned out to be a lively world with a heart-shaped plain of nitrogen ice, mountains of water ice and a thin blue haze.

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**Who acts:** New Horizons, Pluto · **What happens:** fly, turn out, be, shape · **To what, where:** 2015, lively world

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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 (New Horizons, Pluto), 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:1
# text = When New Horizons flew past in 2015, Pluto turned out to be a lively world with a heart-shaped plain of nitrogen ice, mountains of water ice and a thin blue haze.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Horizons	Horizons	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	past	past	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
22	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	haze	haze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | New Horizons |  |  | 2015 |  | past *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 2015=Location |
| 2 | **turn out** | past | Pluto |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Pluto *not said here* | a lively world |  |  |  | with a shaped plain of nitrogen ice and mountains of water ice and a thin blue haze | tree rules |
| 4 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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:015-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets.lesson:1`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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