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title: Much of what comes next is plans, not facts yet: space missions are… — What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond · tree and pragmatics
description: Much of what comes next is plans, not facts yet: space missions are hugely hard and costly, and their dates very often slip, like a building project that always finishes late. Who acts: Much, space missions, dates, building project. A sentence of the lesson «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyon
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# What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond, sentence 1

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Much of what comes next is plans, not facts yet: space missions are hugely hard and costly, and their dates very often slip, like a building project that always finishes late.

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**Who acts:** Much, space missions, dates, building project · **What happens:** come, be, slip, finish · **To what, where:** plans

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond» 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 (Much, space missions, dates, building project), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:030-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond.lesson:1
# text = Much of what comes next is plans, not facts yet: space missions are hugely hard and costly, and their dates very often slip, like a building project that always finishes late.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 030-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	nmod	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
5	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	missions	mission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	hugely	hugely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	34	advmod	_	_
34	finishes	finish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Much of plans and facts | plans and facts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | space missions |  |  |  |  | hard, hugely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | space missions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **slip** | present | missions's dates |  |  |  |  | like a building project; often *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **finish** | present | a building project |  |  |  |  | always, late *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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:030-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond.lesson:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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