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title: The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, with a bar of stars across… — The Milky Way · tree and pragmatics
description: The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, with a bar of stars across its centre and spiral arms curling out from it. Who acts: Milky Way, spiral arms. 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 6

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The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, with a bar of stars across its centre and spiral arms curling out from it.

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**Who acts:** Milky Way, spiral arms · **What happens:** bar, be, curl out · **To what, where:** barred spiral galaxy, Way

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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 (Milky Way, spiral arms), 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:6
# text = The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, with a bar of stars across its centre and spiral arms curling out from it.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	barred	bar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	spiral	spiral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	across	across	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	spiral	spiral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	curling	curl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **bar** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Milky Way | a barred spiral galaxy and a bar of stars across Way's centre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **curl out** | gerund | spiral arms |  |  | Way |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from it=Destination |

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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:6`.

**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): 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/).

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