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title: A space rock is a meteoroid in space, a meteor while it glows in the… — Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A space rock is a meteoroid in space, a meteor while it glows in the air and a meteorite if a piece lands on the ground. Who acts: space rock, rock, piece. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★, sentence 17

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A space rock is a meteoroid in space, a meteor while it glows in the air and a meteorite if a piece lands on the ground.

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**Who acts:** space rock, rock, piece · **What happens:** be, glow, land · **To what, where:** meteoroid, space, air, ground

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» 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 (space rock, rock, piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:031-olympiad-planet-puzzles.lesson:17
# text = A space rock is a meteoroid in space, a meteor while it glows in the air and a meteorite if a piece lands on the ground.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 031-olympiad-planet-puzzles.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	meteoroid	meteoroid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	meteor	meteor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	glows	glow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | a space rock | a meteoroid and a meteor and a meteorite |  | space |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **glow** | present | rock |  |  | the air |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
| 3 | **land** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a piece |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on ground=Destination |

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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:031-olympiad-planet-puzzles.lesson:17`.

**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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