--- title: About 4.6 billion years ago there was no Sun and no Earth, only a hu… — How the Solar System was born · tree and pragmatics description: About 4.6 billion years ago there was no Sun and no Earth, only a huge, cold cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula. Who acts: Sun, huge cold cloud. 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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 (Sun, huge cold cloud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:002-how-the-solar-system-was-born.lesson:0 # text = About 4.6 billion years ago there was no Sun and no Earth, only a huge, cold cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 002-how-the-solar-system-was-born.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 4.6 4.6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 5 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 solar solar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 nebula nebula NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | no Sun and no Earth | | | there | | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | a huge cold cloud of gas and dust *not said here* | the solar nebula | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nebula=Recipient | | 3 | **cloud** | | | gas and dust | | | | | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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:002-how-the-solar-system-was-born.lesson:0`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [The Sun, our star, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/1-the-sun-our-star/18/) - next →: [How the Solar System was born, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/)