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title: The next targets are the Moon's south pole, where dark craters hold… — What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond · tree and pragmatics
description: The next targets are the Moon's south pole, where dark craters hold water ice, and one day Mars, a trip of many months each way. Who acts: next targets, dark craters. A sentence of the lesson «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond, sentence 2

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The next targets are the Moon's south pole, where dark craters hold water ice, and one day Mars, a trip of many months each way.

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**Who acts:** next targets, dark craters · **What happens:** be, hold, trip · **To what, where:** south pole, water ice, many months

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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 (next targets, dark craters), 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:2
# text = The next targets are the Moon's south pole, where dark craters hold water ice, and one day Mars, a trip of many months each way.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	targets	target	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	south	south	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	craters	crater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | present | the next targets | the Moon's south pole and day Mars |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present | dark craters | water ice |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme |
| 3 | **trip** |  |  | many months |  |  |  |  | nom trip «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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: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): R5-strong ×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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