--- title: If the Sun were a football in the middle of a pitch, Earth would be… — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics description: If the Sun were a football in the middle of a pitch, Earth would be a peppercorn about 25 metres away, and the nearest star another football thousands of kilometres away. Who acts: Sun, Earth. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, Earth), 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:12 # text = If the Sun were a football in the middle of a pitch, Earth would be a peppercorn about 25 metres away, and the nearest star another football thousands of kilometres away. # 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 ×3 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 advcl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pitch pitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 peppercorn peppercorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl:unmarked 22 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ _ 27 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 28 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det 29 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 34 . . PUNCT . _ 18 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 a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Sun | a football | | the middle of a pitch | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | would | Earth | a peppercorn and the nearest star football thousands of kilometres | | | | away *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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 ×3. **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: [Distances and light years, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/11/) - next →: [Distances and light years, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/)