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title: NASA's Kepler telescope, working from 2009 to 2018, found thousands… — Exoplanets and the search for life · tree and pragmatics
description: NASA's Kepler telescope, working from 2009 to 2018, found thousands of exoplanets, and TESS has searched almost the whole sky since 2018 for more planets passing in front of their stars. Who acts: Kepler telescope, TESS, more planets. A sentence of the lesson «Exoplanets and the search for life» of 
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# Exoplanets and the search for life, sentence 8

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NASA's Kepler telescope, working from 2009 to 2018, found thousands of exoplanets, and TESS has searched almost the whole sky since 2018 for more planets passing in front of their stars.

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**Who acts:** Kepler telescope, TESS, more planets · **What happens:** work, find, search, pass · **To what, where:** 2009, thousands, whole sky, front

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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 (Kepler telescope, TESS, more planets), 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:8
# text = NASA's Kepler telescope, working from 2009 to 2018, found thousands of exoplanets, and TESS has searched almost the whole sky since 2018 for more planets passing in front of their stars.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	NASA	NASA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Kepler	Kepler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	exoplanets	exoplanet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	TESS	TESS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	searched	search	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
21	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl
25	since	since	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
30	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **work** | gerund | NASA's Kepler telescope *not said here* |  |  | 2009 to 2018 |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past | NASA's Kepler telescope | thousands of exoplanets |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Topic |
| 3 | **search** | present · perfect | TESS | the whole sky |  |  | since 2018 | for more planets | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sky=Location for planet=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund | more planets *not said here* |  |  | front of thousands's stars |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=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: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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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