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title: Helium was found in the Sun's light in 1868, more than 25 years befo… — Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Helium was found in the Sun's light in 1868, more than 25 years before it was found on the Earth, and its name comes from the Greek word for Sun. Who acts: name, Sun, light. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★, sentence 16

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Helium was found in the Sun's light in 1868, more than 25 years before it was found on the Earth, and its name comes from the Greek word for Sun.

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**Who acts:** name, Sun, light · **What happens:** find, come, light, name · **To what, where:** Helium, light, Earth, Greek word

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» 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 (name, Sun, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.lesson:16
# text = Helium was found in the Sun's light in 1868, more than 25 years before it was found on the Earth, and its name comes from the Greek word for Sun.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.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	Helium	helium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1868	1868	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	14	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Sun.	Sun.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
```

## 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 | **find** | past · passive |  | Helium |  | the Sun's light | year | in 1868 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | light |  | the Earth |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | present | light's name |  |  | the Greek word for Sun. |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **light** |  | the Sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | light |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.lesson:16`.

**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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