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title: The giant planets probably moved their orbits after they formed, sca… — How the Solar System was born · tree and pragmatics
description: The giant planets probably moved their orbits after they formed, scattering many small icy bodies inward and outward. Who acts: giant planets, planets. A sentence of the lesson «How the Solar System was born» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# How the Solar System was born, sentence 13

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The giant planets probably moved their orbits after they formed, scattering many small icy bodies inward and outward.

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**Who acts:** giant planets, planets · **What happens:** move, form, scatter · **To what, where:** orbits, many small icy bodies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How the Solar System was born» 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 (giant planets, planets), 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:13
# text = The giant planets probably moved their orbits after they formed, scattering many small icy bodies inward and outward.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	orbits	orbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	scattering	scatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	inward	inward	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	outward	outward	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **move** | past | the giant planets | planets's orbits |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent orbit=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | past | planets *= planet* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **scatter** | gerund | the giant planets *not said here* | many small icy bodies |  |  |  | inward *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme |

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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:002-how-the-solar-system-was-born.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): no change. **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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