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title: The disc of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across but on… — The Milky Way · tree and pragmatics
description: The disc of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across but only about 1,000 light years thick in most places. Who acts: disc. 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 7

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The disc of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across but only about 1,000 light years thick in most places.

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**Who acts:** disc · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 100,000 light years

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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 (disc), 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:7
# text = The disc of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across but only about 1,000 light years thick in most places.
# 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	2	det	_	_
2	disc	disc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	across	across	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
19	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is a** | present | the disc of the Milky Way | 100,000 light years but 1,000 light years |  |  |  | across *property* | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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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