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title: The James Webb Space Telescope can study the air of some exoplanets… — Exoplanets and the search for life · tree and pragmatics
description: The James Webb Space Telescope can study the air of some exoplanets by looking at starlight that has passed through it. Who acts: Space Telescope, starlight. A sentence of the lesson «Exoplanets and the search for life» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Exoplanets and the search for life, sentence 12

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The James Webb Space Telescope can study the air of some exoplanets by looking at starlight that has passed through it.

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**Who acts:** Space Telescope, starlight · **What happens:** study, look, pass · **To what, where:** air, telescope

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Exoplanets and the search for life» 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 (Space Telescope, starlight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:026-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life.lesson:12
# text = The James Webb Space Telescope can study the air of some exoplanets by looking at starlight that has passed through it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 026-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life.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	5	det	_	_
2	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	amod	_	_
3	Webb	Webb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Space	Space	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Telescope	Telescope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	study	study	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	exoplanets	exoplanet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	starlight	starlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **study** | can | the Space Telescope | the air of some exoplanets |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the Space Telescope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at starlight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at starlight=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | present · perfect | starlight |  |  | telescope |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=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:026-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life.lesson:12`.

**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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