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title: In 2019 New Horizons flew past Arrokoth, a Kuiper belt object shaped… — Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2019 New Horizons flew past Arrokoth, a Kuiper belt object shaped like a snowman, the most distant object ever explored up close. Who acts: New Horizons. A sentence of the lesson «Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets, sentence 10

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In 2019 New Horizons flew past Arrokoth, a Kuiper belt object shaped like a snowman, the most distant object ever explored up close.

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**Who acts:** New Horizons · **What happens:** fly, shape, explore · **To what, where:** 2019, Kuiper belt object, distant object

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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), 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:10
# text = In 2019 New Horizons flew past Arrokoth, a Kuiper belt object shaped like a snowman, the most distant object ever explored up close.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	4	compound	_	_
4	Horizons	Horizons	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	past	past	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Arrokoth	Arrokoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Kuiper	Kuiper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	snowman	snowman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	explored	explore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	close	close	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 |  |  | 2019 |  | past Arrokoth | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 2019=Location |
| 2 | **shape** | participle |  | a Kuiper belt object *not said here* |  |  |  | like a snowman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **explore** | participle |  | the distant object *not said here* |  |  | ever | close *property* | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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:10`.

**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): no change. **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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