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title: If the Sun were replaced by a black hole of the same mass, Earth wou… — Black holes · tree and pragmatics
description: If the Sun were replaced by a black hole of the same mass, Earth would keep orbiting just as before, only in the cold and dark. Who acts: black hole, Earth. A sentence of the lesson «Black holes» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Black holes, sentence 11

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If the Sun were replaced by a black hole of the same mass, Earth would keep orbiting just as before, only in the cold and dark.

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**Who acts:** black hole, Earth · **What happens:** replace, keep, orbit · **To what, where:** Sun, cold

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Black holes» 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 (black hole, Earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:025-black-holes.lesson:11
# text = If the Sun were replaced by a black hole of the same mass, Earth would keep orbiting just as before, only in the cold and dark.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 025-black-holes.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 ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	orbiting	orbit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	before	before	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **replace** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | a black hole of the same mass | the Sun |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | would | Earth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **orbit** | gerund | Earth *not said here* |  |  | the cold |  | before *property* | vn orbit-51.9.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:025-black-holes.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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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