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title: The two end stars of the Plough's bowl, the Pointers, lead to Polari… — Constellations and the night sky in winter and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: The two end stars of the Plough's bowl, the Pointers, lead to Polaris, the Pole Star, which stays almost still above due north. Who acts: two end stars, Polaris. A sentence of the lesson «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 13

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The two end stars of the Plough's bowl, the Pointers, lead to Polaris, the Pole Star, which stays almost still above due north.

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**Who acts:** two end stars, Polaris · **What happens:** lead, stay · **To what, where:** Polaris

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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 (two end stars, Polaris), 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:13
# text = The two end stars of the Plough's bowl, the Pointers, lead to Polaris, the Pole Star, which stays almost still above due north.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nummod
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Plough	Plough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Pointers	pointer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
24	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	above	above	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:amod
28	north	north	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **lead** | present | the two end stars of the Plough's bowl |  | Polaris |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to polaris=Patient |
| 2 | **stay** | present | Polaris |  |  |  | still | north *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:13`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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