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title: In spring, follow the curve of the Plough's handle to "arc to Arctur… — Constellations and the night sky in winter and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: In spring, follow the curve of the Plough's handle to "arc to Arcturus" and then "speed on to Spica" in Virgo. Who acts: you. 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 the pragmatics of e
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# Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 16

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In spring, follow the curve of the Plough's handle to "arc to Arcturus" and then "speed on to Spica" in Virgo.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** follow, speed on · **To what, where:** curve, Spica, Virgo

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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 (you), 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:16
# text = In spring, follow the curve of the Plough's handle to "arc to Arcturus" and then "speed on to Spica" in Virgo.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	curve	curve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Plough	Plough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	arc	arc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Arcturus	Arcturus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
21	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Spica	Spica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nmod
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Virgo	Virgo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | imperative | you *not said here* | the curve of the Plough's handle |  |  | spring | arc to Arcturus *obl* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curve=Theme |
| 2 | **speed on** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Spica | Virgo | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to spica=Result |

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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:16`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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