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title: We sit far out in a small arm, about 26,000 light years from the bus… — The Milky Way · tree and pragmatics
description: We sit far out in a small arm, about 26,000 light years from the busy centre, where a giant black hole hides. Who acts: We, giant black hole. 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 3

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We sit far out in a small arm, about 26,000 light years from the busy centre, where a giant black hole hides.

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**Who acts:** We, giant black hole · **What happens:** sit, hide · **To what, where:** small arm

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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, giant black hole), 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:3
# text = We sit far out in a small arm, about 26,000 light years from the busy centre, where a giant black hole hides.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	26,000	26,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **sit** | present | We |  |  | a small arm | year | from the busy centre; out *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location |
| 2 | **hide** | present | a giant black hole |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:3`.

**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 ×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/).

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