--- title: Much further out, scientists think a vast shell of icy bodies, the O… — Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets · tree and pragmatics description: Much further out, scientists think a vast shell of icy bodies, the Oort cloud, surrounds the whole Solar System, perhaps a quarter of the way to the nearest star. Who acts: scientists, vast shell. A sentence of the lesson «Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets» of the space course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets/) / 2 # Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets, sentence 2 Much further out, scientists think a vast shell of icy bodies, the Oort cloud, surrounds the whole Solar System, perhaps a quarter of the way to the nearest star. **Who acts:** scientists, vast shell · **What happens:** think, surround · **To what, where:** whole Solar System · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (scientists, vast shell), 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:2 # text = Much further out, scientists think a vast shell of icy bodies, the Oort cloud, surrounds the whole Solar System, perhaps a quarter of the way to the nearest star. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Much much ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 icy icy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Oort Oort PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 surrounds surround VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 Solar solar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 System System PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 amod _ _ 33 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists | | | | | far *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **surround** | present | a vast shell of icy bodies and the Oort cloud | the whole Solar System | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme system=Co-Theme | 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. **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: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 ×1, R7-rel-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. 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