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title: We live inside the disc, so when we look along it we see a pale band… — The Milky Way · tree and pragmatics
description: We live inside the disc, so when we look along it we see a pale band of countless stars stretching across a dark sky. Who acts: We, pale band. 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.
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# The Milky Way, sentence 1

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We live inside the disc, so when we look along it we see a pale band of countless stars stretching across a dark sky.

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**Who acts:** We, pale band · **What happens:** live, look, see, stretch · **To what, where:** disc, pale band, dark sky

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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 (We, pale band), 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:1
# text = We live inside the disc, so when we look along it we see a pale band of countless stars stretching across a dark sky.
# 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): no change
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	disc	disc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
22	across	across	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | We |  |  | the disc |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside disc=Location |
| 2 | **look** | present | we |  |  |  |  | along disc | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent along it=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | we | a pale band of countless stars |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer band=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stretch** | gerund | a pale band of countless stars *not said here* |  |  | a dark sky |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sky=Location |

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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:023-the-milky-way.lesson:1`.

**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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