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title: Run the film backwards and everything was once squeezed together, ex… — Galaxies and the Big Bang · tree and pragmatics
description: Run the film backwards and everything was once squeezed together, extremely hot and dense, about 13.8 billion years ago: that is the Big Bang theory. Who acts: you, that. A sentence of the lesson «Galaxies and the Big Bang» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Galaxies and the Big Bang, sentence 3

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Run the film backwards and everything was once squeezed together, extremely hot and dense, about 13.8 billion years ago: that is the Big Bang theory.

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**Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** run, squeeze, be · **To what, where:** film, everything, Bang theory

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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 (you, that), 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:3
# text = Run the film backwards and everything was once squeezed together, extremely hot and dense, about 13.8 billion years ago: that is the Big Bang theory.
# 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 ×5
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	backwards	backward	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
9	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	13.8	13.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	_
19	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
21	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Bang	Bang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* | the film |  |  |  | backward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme film=Trajectory |
| 2 | **squeeze** | past · passive |  | everything |  |  |  | ago, hot, once, together *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | the Bang theory |  |  |  |  | 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:3`.

**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 ×5. **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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