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title: Neptune was found in 1846 where Urbain Le Verrier predicted it shoul… — How we know: measuring the sky · tree and pragmatics
description: Neptune was found in 1846 where Urbain Le Verrier predicted it should be, from the way Uranus was being pulled off course. Who acts: Urbain, way. A sentence of the lesson «How we know: measuring the sky» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# How we know: measuring the sky, sentence 16

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Neptune was found in 1846 where Urbain Le Verrier predicted it should be, from the way Uranus was being pulled off course.

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**Who acts:** Urbain, way · **What happens:** find, predict, pull off · **To what, where:** Neptune, 1846, way, Uranus

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How we know: measuring the sky» 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 (Urbain, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:028-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky.lesson:16
# text = Neptune was found in 1846 where Urbain Le Verrier predicted it should be, from the way Uranus was being pulled off course.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 028-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky.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	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1846	1846	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
7	Urbain	Urbain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Verrier	Verrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	predicted	predict	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **find** | past · passive |  | Neptune |  | 1846 |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **predict** | past | Urbain |  |  | the way |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **pull off** | past · passive | the way *not said here* | Uranus |  |  |  | course *obl* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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:028-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky.lesson:16`.

**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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