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title: Orion, the hunter, is the easiest winter constellation from Britain… — Constellations and the night sky in winter and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Orion, the hunter, is the easiest winter constellation from Britain and North America, with three bright stars in a row making his belt. Who acts: Orion, three bright stars. A sentence of the lesson «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» of the space course of Mova's primary school 
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# Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 8

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Orion, the hunter, is the easiest winter constellation from Britain and North America, with three bright stars in a row making his belt.

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**Who acts:** Orion, three bright stars · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** easiest winter constellation, Britain, belt

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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), 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:8
# text = Orion, the hunter, is the easiest winter constellation from Britain and North America, with three bright stars in a row making his belt.
# 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	Orion	Orion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
9	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	constellation	constellation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present | Orion | the easiest winter constellation |  | Britain and North America |  | with three bright stars in a row | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | three bright stars in a row *not said here* | constellation's belt |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset belt=Product |

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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:8`.

**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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