--- title: Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is the farthest human-made object, and… — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics description: Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is the farthest human-made object, and it is due to reach about one light-day from Earth, about 26 billion km, around late 2026. Who acts: Voyager, it. 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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 (Voyager, it), 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:9 # text = Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is the farthest human-made object, and it is due to reach about one light-day from Earth, about 26 billion km, around late 2026. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Voyager Voyager PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 launched launch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1977 1977 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 10 farthest far ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 11 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 due due ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 4 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 csubj _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 24 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 26 26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 compound _ _ 32 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 around around ADP IN _ 37 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 36 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 37 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl:unmarked 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **launch** | past | Voyager | | | 1977 | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in 1977=Destination | | 2 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **is a** | present | | the farthest human made object | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | it | | | | | due *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **reach** | to-infinitive | | billion km | | late 2026 | day | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent around 2026=Path | 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:9`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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: [Distances and light years, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/8/) - next →: [Distances and light years, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/)