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title: Betelgeuse, Sirius and Procyon form the Winter Triangle, a large sha… — Constellations and the night sky in winter and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Betelgeuse, Sirius and Procyon form the Winter Triangle, a large shape of three bright stars in the winter evening sky; it is not one of the 88 constellations but a shape made by stars from three of them. Who acts: Betelgeuse, Triangle. A sentence of the lesson «Constellations and the night sky in w
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# Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 10

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Betelgeuse, Sirius and Procyon form the Winter Triangle, a large shape of three bright stars in the winter evening sky; it is not one of the 88 constellations but a shape made by stars from three of them.

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**Who acts:** Betelgeuse, Triangle · **What happens:** form, not be, make · **To what, where:** Winter Triangle, one, shape, three

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» 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 (Betelgeuse, Triangle), 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:10
# text = Betelgeuse, Sirius and Procyon form the Winter Triangle, a large shape of three bright stars in the winter evening sky; it is not one of the 88 constellations but a shape made by stars from three of them.
# 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	Betelgeuse	Betelgeuse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Sirius	Sirius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	Procyon	procyon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Triangle	Triangle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	88	88	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	constellations	constellation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:acl
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl:agent	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **form** | present | Betelgeuse and Sirius | the Winter Triangle |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location triangle=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Triangle | one |  |  |  | of the 88 constellations but a shape | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | a shape *not said here* |  | three of stars |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from three=Material |

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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:020-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring.lesson:10`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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