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title: In winter, Orion the hunter is the easy one: three bright stars in a… — Constellations and the night sky in winter and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: In winter, Orion the hunter is the easy one: three bright stars in a row make his belt, which points down-left to Sirius and up-right to orange Aldebaran in Taurus. Who acts: Orion, three bright stars, belt. A sentence of the lesson «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» of the spac
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# Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 2

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In winter, Orion the hunter is the easy one: three bright stars in a row make his belt, which points down-left to Sirius and up-right to orange Aldebaran in Taurus.

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**Who acts:** Orion, three bright stars, belt · **What happens:** be, make, point · **To what, where:** easy one, belt, Sirius

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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 (Orion, three bright stars, belt), 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:2
# text = In winter, Orion the hunter is the easy one: three bright stars in a row make his belt, which points down-left to Sirius and up-right to orange Aldebaran in Taurus.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Orion	Orion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	left	leave	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Sirius	Sirius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	up	up	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
32	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Aldebaran	Aldebaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Taurus	Taurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Orion | the easy one |  |  | winter |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | three bright stars in a row | Orion's belt |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset belt=Product |
| 3 | **point** | present | Orion's belt |  | Sirius and up right |  |  | leave *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sirius=Recipient |

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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:2`.

**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): 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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