--- title: In the disc, dust stuck into pebbles, pebbles into rocks, rocks into… — How the Solar System was born · tree and pragmatics description: In the disc, dust stuck into pebbles, pebbles into rocks, rocks into small worlds, rolling bigger like a snowball, and these crashed and merged into planets. Who acts: dust, these. 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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 (dust, these), 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:3 # text = In the disc, dust stuck into pebbles, pebbles into rocks, rocks into small worlds, rolling bigger like a snowball, and these crashed and merged into planets. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 disc disc NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 worlds world NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 rolling roll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 20 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 snowball snowball NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj _ _ 27 crashed crash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 merged merge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 planets planet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stick** | past | dust | | | the disc | | into pebbles and pebbles into rocks and rocks into small worlds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in disc=Destination | | 2 | **roll** | gerund | dust *not said here* | | | | | like a snowball; big *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **crash** | past | these | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **merge** | past | these *not said here* | | | | | into planets | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into planet=Co-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:3`. **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. **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: [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/) - next →: [How the Solar System was born, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/)