--- title: A constellation is an area of sky with an agreed pattern of stars, l… — Constellations and the night sky in winter and s… · tree and pragmatics description: A constellation is an area of sky with an agreed pattern of stars, like a county on a map of the sky: astronomers use 88 official ones that together cover the whole sky. Who acts: constellation, astronomers, 88 official ones, stars. 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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 (constellation, astronomers, 88 official ones, stars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:020-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring.lesson:0 # text = A constellation is an area of sky with an agreed pattern of stars, like a county on a map of the sky: astronomers use 88 official ones that together cover the whole sky. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 020-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 constellation constellation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 agreed agree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 county county NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 astronomers astronomer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 27 88 88 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 together together ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 cover cover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a constellation | a area | | | | of sky; with a agreed pattern of stars | tree rules | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **use** | present | astronomers | 88 official ones | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 4 | **cover** | present | 88 official ones | the whole sky | | | | together *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Destination | | 5 | **pattern** | | stars | | | | | | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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:020-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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