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title: The nearest star after the Sun is Proxima Centauri, about 4.2 light… — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics
description: The nearest star after the Sun is Proxima Centauri, about 4.2 light years away, or about 40 trillion km. Who acts: nearest star. 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 8

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The nearest star after the Sun is Proxima Centauri, about 4.2 light years away, or about 40 trillion km.

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**Who acts:** nearest star · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Proxima

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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 (nearest star), 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:8
# text = The nearest star after the Sun is Proxima Centauri, about 4.2 light years away, or about 40 trillion km.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Proxima	Proxima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	Centauri	Centauri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	4.2	4.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
20	trillion	trillion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | the nearest star after the Sun | Proxima |  |  |  |  | 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:022-distances-and-light-years.lesson:8`.

**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): no change. **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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