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title: Cassiopeia, a W or M of five stars, sits on the other side of Polari… — Constellations and the night sky in winter and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cassiopeia, a W or M of five stars, sits on the other side of Polaris from the Plough and is also always up from Britain. Who acts: Cassiopeia. 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 dependency tree and t
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# Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 14

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Cassiopeia, a W or M of five stars, sits on the other side of Polaris from the Plough and is also always up from Britain.

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**Who acts:** Cassiopeia · **What happens:** sit, be · **To what, where:** other side, Britain

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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 (Cassiopeia), 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:14
# text = Cassiopeia, a W or M of five stars, sits on the other side of Polaris from the Plough and is also always up from Britain.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Cassiopeia	Cassiopeia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	W	W	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	M	M	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Plough	Plough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
25	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **sit** | present | Cassiopeia |  |  | the other side of Polaris from the Plough |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Cassiopeia *not said here* |  |  | Britain |  | always, up *property* | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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