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title: An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun, and… — Exoplanets and the search for life · tree and pragmatics
description: An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun, and more than 6,000 have been confirmed, a number still rising. Who acts: exoplanet, planet, number. 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
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# Exoplanets and the search for life, sentence 5

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An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun, and more than 6,000 have been confirmed, a number still rising.

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**Who acts:** exoplanet, planet, number · **What happens:** be, orbit, confirm, rise · **To what, where:** planet, star, 6,000

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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 (exoplanet, planet, number), 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:5
# text = An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun, and more than 6,000 have been confirmed, a number still rising.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	exoplanet	exoplanet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	orbits	orbit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	6,000	6000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a exoplanet | a planet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **orbit** | present | a planet | a star |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **confirm** | present · perfect · passive |  | 6,000 |  |  |  | a number *obl* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **rise** | gerund | a number *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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: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): 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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