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title: The Big Bang was not a bomb going off in one spot, but all of space… — Galaxies and the Big Bang · tree and pragmatics
description: The Big Bang was not a bomb going off in one spot, but all of space stretching at once, everywhere, and still stretching today. Who acts: Big Bang, bomb, all. 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
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# Galaxies and the Big Bang, sentence 4

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The Big Bang was not a bomb going off in one spot, but all of space stretching at once, everywhere, and still stretching today.

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**Who acts:** Big Bang, bomb, all · **What happens:** not be, go off, stretch · **To what, where:** bomb, one spot

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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, bomb, all), 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:4
# text = The Big Bang was not a bomb going off in one spot, but all of space stretching at once, everywhere, and still stretching today.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bomb	bomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	appos	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
27	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	.	.	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 bomb |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go off** | gerund | a bomb *not said here* |  |  | one spot |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spot=Location |
| 3 | **stretch** | gerund | all |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **stretch** | gerund | all *not said here* |  |  |  | still; today |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:4`.

**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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