--- title: In the disc, dust grains stuck together into pebbles, then rocks, th… — How the Solar System was born · tree and pragmatics description: In the disc, dust grains stuck together into pebbles, then rocks, then bodies kilometres wide called planetesimals, which crashed and merged into planets. Who acts: dust grains, bodies, planetesimals. 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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 grains, bodies, planetesimals), 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:9 # text = In the disc, dust grains stuck together into pebbles, then rocks, then bodies kilometres wide called planetesimals, which 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 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 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 13 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 16 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 17 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod:unmarked 18 wide wide ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 20 planetesimals planetesimal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 crashed crash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 merged merge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 planets planet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 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 | **stick together** | past | dust grains | | | the disc | | into pebbles and rocks and bodies; together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in disc=Destination | | 2 | **call** | participle | bodies *not said here* | planetesimals | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **crash** | past | planetesimals | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **merge** | past | planetesimals *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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/8/) - next →: [How the Solar System was born, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/)