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title: Since 1922 to 1930 astronomers have used 88 official constellations… — Constellations and the night sky in winter and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Since 1922 to 1930 astronomers have used 88 official constellations covering the whole sky. Who acts: astronomers, 88 official constellations. 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 th
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# Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 6

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Since 1922 to 1930 astronomers have used 88 official constellations covering the whole sky.

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**Who acts:** astronomers, 88 official constellations · **What happens:** use, cover · **To what, where:** 88 official constellations, whole sky

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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 (astronomers, 88 official constellations), 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:6
# text = Since 1922 to 1930 astronomers have used 88 official constellations covering the whole sky.
# 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): no change
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1930	1930	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	astronomers	astronomer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	88	88	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	constellations	constellation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **use** | present · perfect | astronomers | 88 official constellations |  |  | since 1922 to 1930 |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constellation=Patient |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund | 88 official constellations *not said here* | the whole sky |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Destination |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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