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title: Jupiter's moon Ganymede and Saturn's moon Titan are both wider than… — Mercury · tree and pragmatics
description: Jupiter's moon Ganymede and Saturn's moon Titan are both wider than Mercury, though Mercury is heavier than either. Who acts: moon Ganymede, Mercury. A sentence of the lesson «Mercury» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mercury, sentence 6

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Jupiter's moon Ganymede and Saturn's moon Titan are both wider than Mercury, though Mercury is heavier than either.

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**Who acts:** moon Ganymede, Mercury · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mercury» 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 (moon Ganymede, Mercury), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:003-mercury.lesson:6
# text = Jupiter's moon Ganymede and Saturn's moon Titan are both wider than Mercury, though Mercury is heavier than either.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 003-mercury.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Ganymede	ganymede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Titan	titan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	both	both	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	advcl	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is** | present | Jupiter's moon Ganymede and Saturn's moon Titan |  |  |  |  | than Mercury; both, wide *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Mercury |  |  |  |  | than either; heavy *property* | tree rules |

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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:003-mercury.lesson:6`.

**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): R8-pos-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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