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title: The Kuiper belt is a huge ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, from ab… — Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kuiper belt is a huge ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, from about 30 to 50 times the Earth's distance from the Sun. Who acts: Kuiper belt. 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 tree and the 
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# Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets, sentence 9

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The Kuiper belt is a huge ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, from about 30 to 50 times the Earth's distance from the Sun.

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**Who acts:** Kuiper belt · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** huge ring

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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 (Kuiper belt), 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:9
# text = The Kuiper belt is a huge ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, from about 30 to 50 times the Earth's distance from the Sun.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Kuiper	Kuiper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case
18	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Sun.	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Kuiper belt | a huge ring |  |  |  | of icy bodies beyond Neptune; from the Earth's distance  30 50 times from the Sun. | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×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/).

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