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title: Galaxies are moving apart from each other, and the farther away a ga… — Galaxies and the Big Bang · tree and pragmatics
description: Galaxies are moving apart from each other, and the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it moves away: twice as far, about twice as fast. Who acts: Galaxies, universe. 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 p
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# Galaxies and the Big Bang, sentence 9

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Galaxies are moving apart from each other, and the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it moves away: twice as far, about twice as fast.

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**Who acts:** Galaxies, universe · **What happens:** move, be, move away · **To what, where:** each

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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, universe), 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:9
# text = Galaxies are moving apart from each other, and the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it moves away: twice as far, about twice as fast.
# 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 ×3
1	Galaxies	galaxy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obl	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
23	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	30	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **move** | present · progressive | Galaxies |  |  | each |  | apart *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from each=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move away** | present | universe |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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 ×3. **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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