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title: Stars do the same as Earth moves round the Sun, and the smaller the… — How we know: measuring the sky · tree and pragmatics
description: Stars do the same as Earth moves round the Sun, and the smaller the jump, the farther the star. Who acts: Stars, Earth. 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 every clause.
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# How we know: measuring the sky, sentence 2

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Stars do the same as Earth moves round the Sun, and the smaller the jump, the farther the star.

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**Who acts:** Stars, Earth · **What happens:** do, move · **To what, where:** same, Sun

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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 (Stars, Earth), 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:2
# text = Stars do the same as Earth moves round the Sun, and the smaller the jump, the farther the star.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Stars | the same |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
| 2 | **move** | present | Earth |  |  | the Sun |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round sun=Trajectory |

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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:2`.

**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): 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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