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title: Orion's belt points down-left to Sirius, the brightest star, and up-… — Constellations and the night sky in winter and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Orion's belt points down-left to Sirius, the brightest star, and up-right to orange Aldebaran in Taurus. 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 every clause.
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# Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring, sentence 9

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Orion's belt points down-left to Sirius, the brightest star, and up-right to orange Aldebaran in Taurus.

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**What happens:** point · **To what, where:** right, 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: 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:9
# text = Orion's belt points down-left to Sirius, the brightest star, 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Orion	Orion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	left	left	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sirius	Sirius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	up	up	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Aldebaran	Aldebaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Taurus	Taurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **point** | present |  | right to orange Aldebaran in Taurus | Sirius |  |  | left *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:9`.

**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): 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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