--- title: Comets leave dust along their path, and when the Earth runs through… — Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets · tree and pragmatics description: Comets leave dust along their path, and when the Earth runs through that dust every year we see a meteor shower, such as the Perseids in August. Who acts: Comets, Earth, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Comets, Earth, we), 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:4 # text = Comets leave dust along their path, and when the Earth runs through that dust every year we see a meteor shower, such as the Perseids in August. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Comets comet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 along along ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 13 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 meteor meteor NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 shower shower NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 27 case _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Perseids Perseid PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | present | Comets | dust | | bodies's path | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dust=Theme along path=Location | | 2 | **run** | present | the Earth | | | that dust | year | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through dust=Trajectory | | 3 | **see** | present | we | a meteor shower | | | | such the Perseids in August | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shower=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. 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