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title: Even at Voyager's speed, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take ab… — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics
description: Even at Voyager's speed, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take about 75,000 years. Who acts: journey. A sentence of the lesson «Distances and light years» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Distances and light years, sentence 10

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Even at Voyager's speed, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take about 75,000 years.

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**Who acts:** journey · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** speed

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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 (journey), 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:10
# text = Even at Voyager's speed, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take about 75,000 years.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Voyager	Voyager	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Proxima	Proxima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Centauri	Centauri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	75,000	75,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **take** | would | a journey to Proxima |  |  | Voyager's speed | year |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at speed=Asset |

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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:022-distances-and-light-years.lesson:10`.

**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 ×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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