--- title: Now we know there are hundreds of billions of galaxies, and they are… — Galaxies and the Big Bang · tree and pragmatics description: Now we know there are hundreds of billions of galaxies, and they are all moving apart: the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it goes. Who acts: we, hundreds, galaxy, faint. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, hundreds, galaxy, faint), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:024-galaxies-and-the-big-bang.lesson:1 # text = Now we know there are hundreds of billions of galaxies, and they are all moving apart: the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it goes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 024-galaxies-and-the-big-bang.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): no change 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 billions billion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 galaxies galaxy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 all all ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 17 apart apart ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 farther far ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 advcl _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 galaxy galaxy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | we | | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **does** | present | hundreds of billions of galaxies | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **move** | present · progressive | hundreds *= hundred* | | | | | all, apart *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a galaxy | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | present | faint | | | | | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:024-galaxies-and-the-big-bang.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Galaxies and the Big Bang, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang/0/) - next →: [Galaxies and the Big Bang, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang/)