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title: Until the 1920s many astronomers thought the Milky Way was the whole… — Galaxies and the Big Bang · tree and pragmatics
description: Until the 1920s many astronomers thought the Milky Way was the whole universe. Who acts: many astronomers, Milky Way. 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 5

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Until the 1920s many astronomers thought the Milky Way was the whole universe.

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**Who acts:** many astronomers, Milky Way · **What happens:** think, be · **To what, where:** whole universe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (many astronomers, Milky Way), 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:5
# text = Until the 1920s many astronomers thought the Milky Way was the whole universe.
# 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	Until	until	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1920s	1920s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	astronomers	astronomer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	universe	universe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **think** *speech: other* | past | many astronomers |  |  |  | until the 1920s |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Milky Way | the whole universe |  |  |  |  | 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:5`.

**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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