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title: Mercury goes round the Sun in just 88 Earth days, faster than any ot… — Mercury · tree and pragmatics
description: Mercury goes round the Sun in just 88 Earth days, faster than any other planet. Who acts: 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 7

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Mercury goes round the Sun in just 88 Earth days, faster than any other planet.

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**Who acts:** Mercury · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** Sun

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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 (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:7
# text = Mercury goes round the Sun in just 88 Earth days, faster than any other planet.
# 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): no change
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	88	88	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	advcl	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **go** | present | Mercury |  |  | the Sun | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round sun=Initial\_Location |

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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:7`.

**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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