--- title: Space is so big that kilometres stop being useful, so astronomers me… — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics description: Space is so big that kilometres stop being useful, so astronomers measure it by how far light travels, the fastest thing there is. Who acts: Space, kilometres, astronomers, light. A sentence of the lesson «Distances and light years» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [Distances and light years](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/) / 0 # Distances and light years, sentence 0 Space is so big that kilometres stop being useful, so astronomers measure it by how far light travels, the fastest thing there is. **Who acts:** Space, kilometres, astronomers, light, fastest thing · **What happens:** be, stop, measure, travel · **To what, where:** Space This is a sentence of the lesson «Distances and light years» 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 (Space, kilometres, astronomers, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:022-distances-and-light-years.lesson:0 # text = Space is so big that kilometres stop being useful, so astronomers measure it by how far light travels, the fastest thing there is. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 022-distances-and-light-years.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 ×1 1 Space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 9 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 astronomers astronomer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 measure measure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 by by SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 17 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 18 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:PronType=Dem 25 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Space | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** | present | kilometres | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | gerund | kilometres *not said here* | | | | | useful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **measure** | present | astronomers | Space | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value | | 5 | **travel** | present | light | | | | | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **be** | present | the fastest thing *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:022-distances-and-light-years.lesson:0`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [The night sky in summer and autumn, an…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/17/) - next →: [Distances and light years, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/)