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title: In February 2021 a meteorite fell on a driveway in Winchcombe, Glouc… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics
description: In February 2021 a meteorite fell on a driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, and was picked up within hours, one of the freshest carbon-rich meteorites ever found. Who acts: meteorite. A sentence of the lesson «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» of the space course of Mova's primary school w
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# Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, sentence 13

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In February 2021 a meteorite fell on a driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, and was picked up within hours, one of the freshest carbon-rich meteorites ever found.

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**Who acts:** meteorite · **What happens:** fall, pick up, find · **To what, where:** driveway, freshest carbon rich meteorites

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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 (meteorite), 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:13
# text = In February 2021 a meteorite fell on a driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, and was picked up within hours, one of the freshest carbon-rich meteorites ever found.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	driveway	driveway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Winchcombe	Winchcombe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Gloucestershire	Gloucestershire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	freshest	fresh	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
26	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	amod	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
28	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	meteorites	meteorite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | a meteorite |  |  | a driveway in Winchcombe | february |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on driveway=Location |
| 2 | **pick up** | past · passive | a meteorite *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING» |
| 3 | **find** | participle |  | the freshest carbon rich meteorites *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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