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title: The Geminids, peaking around 13 to 14 December, are one of the riche… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics
description: The Geminids, peaking around 13 to 14 December, are one of the richest showers of the year and come from an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon rather than a comet. Who acts: Geminids. A sentence of the lesson «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, sentence 10

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The Geminids, peaking around 13 to 14 December, are one of the richest showers of the year and come from an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon rather than a comet.

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**Who acts:** Geminids · **What happens:** peak, be, come, call · **To what, where:** 13, one, asteroid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» 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 (Geminids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.lesson:10
# text = The Geminids, peaking around 13 to 14 December, are one of the richest showers of the year and come from an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon rather than a comet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Geminids	geminid	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	peaking	peak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	3200	3200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	Phaethon	Phaethon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
28	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	31	cc	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **peak** | gerund | the Geminids *not said here* | 13 to 14  December |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Geminids | one |  |  |  | of the richest showers of the year | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | the Geminids *not said here* |  |  | a asteroid |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from asteroid=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | a asteroid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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