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title: The Southern Cross, Crux, is the smallest of the 88 constellations. — The night sky in summer and autumn, and the sout… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Southern Cross, Crux, is the smallest of the 88 constellations. Who acts: Southern Cross. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky, sentence 13

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The Southern Cross, Crux, is the smallest of the 88 constellations.

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**Who acts:** Southern Cross · **What happens:** be

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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 (Southern Cross), 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:13
# text = The Southern Cross, Crux, is the smallest of the 88 constellations.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Southern	Southern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Crux	Crux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	88	88	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	constellations	constellation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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** | present | the Southern Cross |  |  |  |  | of the 88 constellations; small *property* | tree rules |

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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:13`.

**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. **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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