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title: The Andromeda Galaxy, about 2.5 million light years away, is the far… — The night sky in summer and autumn, and the sout… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Andromeda Galaxy, about 2.5 million light years away, is the farthest thing most people can see with the naked eye, a faint smudge in autumn skies. Who acts: Andromeda Galaxy, most people. A sentence of the lesson «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky» of the space course of 
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# The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky, sentence 11

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The Andromeda Galaxy, about 2.5 million light years away, is the farthest thing most people can see with the naked eye, a faint smudge in autumn skies.

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**Who acts:** Andromeda Galaxy, most people · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** farthest thing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky» 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 (Andromeda Galaxy, most people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.lesson:11
# text = The Andromeda Galaxy, about 2.5 million light years away, is the farthest thing most people can see with the naked eye, a faint smudge in autumn skies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Andromeda	Andromeda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	Galaxy	galaxy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	2.5	2.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	smudge	smudge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | the Andromeda Galaxy | the farthest thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | can | most people | the farthest thing *not said here* |  |  |  | with the naked eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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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:021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.lesson:11`.

**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 ×2. **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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