--- title: Now and then one of these icy bodies falls in towards the Sun and be… — Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets · tree and pragmatics description: Now and then one of these icy bodies falls in towards the Sun and becomes a comet: a dirty snowball a few kilometres across that warms up and grows a glowing head and tails, like breath steaming on a cold morning. Who acts: one, dirty snowball, breath. A sentence of the lesson «Pluto, the Kuiper bel --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets, sentence 3 Now and then one of these icy bodies falls in towards the Sun and becomes a comet: a dirty snowball a few kilometres across that warms up and grows a glowing head and tails, like breath steaming on a cold morning. **Who acts:** one, dirty snowball, breath · **What happens:** fall in, become, warm up, grow, glow, steam · **To what, where:** Sun, comet, glowing head 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 (one, dirty snowball, breath), 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:3 # text = Now and then one of these icy bodies falls in towards the Sun and becomes a comet: a dirty snowball a few kilometres across that warms up and grows a glowing head and tails, like breath steaming on a cold morning. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 7 icy icy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 towards towards ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 comet comet NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 18 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 snowball snowball NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 across across ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 glowing glow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 amod _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 39 steaming steam VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall in** | present | one of this icy bodies | | | the Sun | now | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards sun=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **become** | present | one of this icy bodies *not said here* | a comet | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **warm up** | present | a dirty snowball | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | present | a dirty snowball *not said here* | a glowing head and tails | | | | like breath | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | | 5 | **glow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **steam** | gerund | breath *not said here* | | | | morning | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:3`. **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 ×4, 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/). - ← previous: [Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets/2/) - next →: [Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets/)