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title: Galaxies come in main shapes: spirals like ours, round or oval ellip… — Galaxies and the Big Bang · tree and pragmatics
description: Galaxies come in main shapes: spirals like ours, round or oval ellipticals, and shapeless irregulars. Who acts: Galaxies. 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 8

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Galaxies come in main shapes: spirals like ours, round or oval ellipticals, and shapeless irregulars.

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**Who acts:** Galaxies · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** main shapes

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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 (Galaxies), 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:8
# text = Galaxies come in main shapes: spirals like ours, round or oval ellipticals, and shapeless irregulars.
# 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	Galaxies	galaxy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	spirals	spiral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	oval	oval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ellipticals	elliptical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	shapeless	shapeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	irregulars	irregular	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **come** | present | Galaxies |  |  | main shapes and spirals like ours or round oval ellipticals and shapeless irregulars |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shape=Location |

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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:8`.

**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/).

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