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title: Out camping on a dark night, with no street lights, you can see this… — The Milky Way · tree and pragmatics
description: Out camping on a dark night, with no street lights, you can see this milky river; in most towns light pollution has washed it away. Who acts: you, light pollution. 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 eve
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# The Milky Way, sentence 4

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Out camping on a dark night, with no street lights, you can see this milky river; in most towns light pollution has washed it away.

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**Who acts:** you, light pollution · **What happens:** camp, see, wash away · **To what, where:** milky river, river, most towns

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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 (you, light pollution), 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:4
# text = Out camping on a dark night, with no street lights, you can see this milky river; in most towns light pollution has washed it away.
# 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 ×2
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	camping	camp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
10	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	pollution	pollution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **camp** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  | night | with no street lights; out *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with light=Location |
| 2 | **see** | can | you | this milky river |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wash away** | present · perfect | light pollution | river |  | most towns |  | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:4`.

**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 ×2. **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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