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title: Big telescopes are built on high, dry mountains such as Mauna Kea in… — Telescopes and light · tree and pragmatics
description: Big telescopes are built on high, dry mountains such as Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the Atacama Desert in Chile. 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 9

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Big telescopes are built on high, dry mountains such as Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the Atacama Desert in Chile.

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**What happens:** build · **To what, where:** Big telescopes, high dry mountains

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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: 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:9
# text = Big telescopes are built on high, dry mountains such as Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the Atacama Desert in Chile.
# 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	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	telescopes	telescope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Kea	Kea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Atacama	Atacama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Chile	Chile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **build** | present · passive |  | Big telescopes |  | high dry mountains such Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the Atacama Desert in Chile |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on mountain=Source |

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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:027-telescopes-and-light.lesson:9`.

**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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