--- title: Meteor showers happen on about the same dates each year when the Ear… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics description: Meteor showers happen on about the same dates each year when the Earth passes through a trail of dust left by a comet, such as the Perseids around 12 August from comet Swift-Tuttle. Who acts: Meteor showers, Earth. 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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 (Meteor showers, Earth), 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:9 # text = Meteor showers happen on about the same dates each year when the Earth passes through a trail of dust left by a comet, such as the Perseids around 12 August from comet Swift-Tuttle. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Meteor meteor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 showers shower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 15 through through ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 comet comet NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:agent _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 28 case _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Perseids Perseid PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 29 around around ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:unmarked _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 comet comet NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 34 Swift Swift PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 36 Tuttle Tuttle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **happen** | present | Meteor showers | | | the same dates | year | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on date=Location | | 2 | **pass** | present | the Earth | | | a trail of dust such the Perseids 12 August from comet | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through trail=Location | | 3 | **leave** | participle | | dust *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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