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title: The Big Bang was not an explosion at one point into empty space, but… — Galaxies and the Big Bang · tree and pragmatics
description: The Big Bang was not an explosion at one point into empty space, but the stretching of all of space at once, everywhere. Who acts: Big Bang. A sentence of the lesson «Galaxies and the Big Bang» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Galaxies and the Big Bang, sentence 11

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The Big Bang was not an explosion at one point into empty space, but the stretching of all of space at once, everywhere.

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**Who acts:** Big Bang · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** explosion, one point

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Galaxies and the Big Bang» 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 (Big Bang), 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:11
# text = The Big Bang was not an explosion at one point into empty space, but the stretching of all of space at once, everywhere.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bang	Bang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stretching	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **is a** | past | the Big Bang | a explosion but the stretching of all |  | one point |  | into empty space | 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:024-galaxies-and-the-big-bang.lesson:11`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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