--- title: The Sun is not alone: it is one of a few hundred billion stars in a… — The Milky Way · tree and pragmatics description: The Sun is not alone: it is one of a few hundred billion stars in a giant spinning disc called the Milky Way, our galaxy. Who acts: Sun. A sentence of the lesson «The Milky Way» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/23-the-milky-way/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/) / [The Milky Way](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/23-the-milky-way/) / 0 # The Milky Way, sentence 0 The Sun is not alone: it is one of a few hundred billion stars in a giant spinning disc called the Milky Way, our galaxy. **Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** not be, be, spin, call · **To what, where:** one, giant spinning disc · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Milky Way» 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 (Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:023-the-milky-way.lesson:0 # text = The Sun is not alone: it is one of a few hundred billion stars in a giant spinning disc called the Milky Way, our galaxy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 023-the-milky-way.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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 10 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 14 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 spinning spin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod 20 disc disc NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Milky milky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Way Way PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 galaxy galaxy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **not** **is** | present | the Sun | | | | | alone *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Sun | one | | | | of a few billion stars in a giant spinning disc | tree rules | | 3 | **spin** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** | participle | | a giant spinning disc *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:023-the-milky-way.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): R7-rel-agree ×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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/15/) - next →: [The Milky Way, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/23-the-milky-way/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/23-the-milky-way/)