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title: Isaac Newton built an early working reflecting telescope in 1668. — Telescopes and light · tree and pragmatics
description: Isaac Newton built an early working reflecting telescope in 1668. Who acts: Isaac Newton. A sentence of the lesson «Telescopes and light» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Telescopes and light, sentence 7

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Isaac Newton built an early working reflecting telescope in 1668.

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**Who acts:** Isaac Newton · **What happens:** build, reflect · **To what, where:** early working reflecting telescope, 1668

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Telescopes and light» 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 (Isaac Newton), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:027-telescopes-and-light.lesson:7
# text = Isaac Newton built an early working reflecting telescope in 1668.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 027-telescopes-and-light.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): no change
1	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Newton	Newton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	working	working	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1668	1668	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
11	.	.	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 | **build** | past | Isaac Newton | a early working reflecting telescope |  | 1668 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telescope=Product |
| 2 | **reflect** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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**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): no change. **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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