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title: The Sun lies about 26,000 light years from the galaxy's centre, in a… — The Milky Way · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sun lies about 26,000 light years from the galaxy's centre, in a smaller arm called the Orion Spur. Who acts: Sun. 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 8

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The Sun lies about 26,000 light years from the galaxy's centre, in a smaller arm called the Orion Spur.

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**Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** lie, call · **To what, where:** centre, smaller arm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sun), 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:8
# text = The Sun lies about 26,000 light years from the galaxy's centre, in a smaller arm called the Orion Spur.
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	26,000	26,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Orion	Orion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	Spur	spur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **lie** | present | the Sun |  |  | the galaxy's centre | year | in a smaller arm | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a smaller arm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:8`.

**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 ×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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