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title: Venus is the hottest planet, about 465 degrees Celsius, although Mer… — Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Venus is the hottest planet, about 465 degrees Celsius, although Mercury is closer to the Sun, because Venus's thick carbon dioxide air traps the heat; Mercury's daytime reaches about 430 degrees. Who acts: Venus, Mercury, thick dioxide air, daytime. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: planet puzzle
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# Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★, sentence 6

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Venus is the hottest planet, about 465 degrees Celsius, although Mercury is closer to the Sun, because Venus's thick carbon dioxide air traps the heat; Mercury's daytime reaches about 430 degrees.

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**Who acts:** Venus, Mercury, thick dioxide air, daytime · **What happens:** be, trap, reach · **To what, where:** hottest planet, heat, 430 degrees

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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 (Venus, Mercury, thick dioxide air, daytime), 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:6
# text = Venus is the hottest planet, about 465 degrees Celsius, although Mercury is closer to the Sun, because Venus's thick carbon dioxide air traps the heat; Mercury's daytime reaches about 430 degrees.
# 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	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hottest	hot	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	465	465	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
10	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	traps	trap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	daytime	daytime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
35	about	about	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	430	430	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 a** | present | Venus | the hottest planet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Mercury |  |  |  |  | to the Sun; close *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **trap** | present | Venus's thick dioxide air | the heat |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient |
| 4 | **reach** | present | Mercury's daytime | 430 degrees |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent degree=Theme |

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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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**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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