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title: In spring Leo appears in the south with his backwards question mark,… — Constellations and the night sky in winter and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: In spring Leo appears in the south with his backwards question mark, the Sickle; and the curve of the Plough's handle leads you to "arc to Arcturus" and "speed on to Spica". Who acts: Leo, curve. A sentence of the lesson «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» of the space course of 
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# Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 4

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In spring Leo appears in the south with his backwards question mark, the Sickle; and the curve of the Plough's handle leads you to "arc to Arcturus" and "speed on to Spica".

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**Who acts:** Leo, curve · **What happens:** appear, lead, speed on, mark · **To what, where:** south, you, Spica

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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 (Leo, curve), 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:4
# text = In spring Leo appears in the south with his backwards question mark, the Sickle; and the curve of the Plough's handle leads you to "arc to Arcturus" and "speed on to Spica".
# 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 ×2, 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	backwards	backward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Sickle	Sickle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	curve	curve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Plough	Plough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	arc	arc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Arcturus	Arcturus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	on	on	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Spica	Spica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:nmod
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **appear** | present | Leo |  |  | the south | spring | with Leo's question mark | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location |
| 2 | **lead** | present | the curve of the Plough's handle | you |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **speed on** *in a quote* | infinitive | the curve of the Plough's handle *not said here* |  | Spica |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to spica=Result |
| 4 | **mark** |  | Leo |  |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:4`.

**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 ×2, 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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