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title: Aboriginal Australians see the Emu in the Sky in the dark dust cloud… — The night sky in summer and autumn, and the sout… · tree and pragmatics
description: Aboriginal Australians see the Emu in the Sky in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way. Who acts: Aboriginal Australians. 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 ev
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# The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky, sentence 16

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Aboriginal Australians see the Emu in the Sky in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way.

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**Who acts:** Aboriginal Australians · **What happens:** see, cloud · **To what, where:** Emu, Sky, Milky Way

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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 (Aboriginal Australians), 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:16
# text = Aboriginal Australians see the Emu in the Sky in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Australians	australian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Emu	Emu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sky	Sky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **see** | present | Aboriginal Australians | the Emu |  | the Sky |  | in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer emu=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cloud** |  |  | the Milky Way |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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:16`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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