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title: Most of the gas fell to the centre, and when it became hot and dense… — How the Solar System was born · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the gas fell to the centre, and when it became hot and dense enough, fusion switched on and the Sun was born. Who acts: Most, centre, fusion. 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 e
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# How the Solar System was born, sentence 8

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Most of the gas fell to the centre, and when it became hot and dense enough, fusion switched on and the Sun was born.

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**Who acts:** Most, centre, fusion · **What happens:** fall, become, switch on, bear · **To what, where:** Sun

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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 (Most, centre, fusion), 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:8
# text = Most of the gas fell to the centre, and when it became hot and dense enough, fusion switched on and the Sun was born.
# 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 ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	fusion	fusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	switched	switch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:parataxis
21	on	on	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | Most of the gas |  |  |  |  | to the centre | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to centre=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | centre |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **switch on** | past | fusion |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the Sun |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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 ×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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