--- title: Proxima Centauri is about 4.2 light years away, Sirius about 8.6, Ve… — Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Proxima Centauri is about 4.2 light years away, Sirius about 8.6, Vega about 25 and Polaris about 430, so their light left them that many years ago. Who acts: Proxima Centauri, Sirius. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Proxima Centauri, Sirius), 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:6 # text = Proxima Centauri is about 4.2 light years away, Sirius about 8.6, Vega about 25 and Polaris about 430, so their light left them that many years ago. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Proxima proxima PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Centauri Centauri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 5 4.2 4.2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 25 parataxis _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 Sirius Sirius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 8.6 8.6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Vega vega PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Polaris Polaris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 430 430 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 that that ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 ago ago ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advcl 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Proxima Centauri | | | | year | away *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | past | Sirius 8.6 and Vega 25 and Polaris 430 | kilometres *= kilometre* | | | | ago *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **light** | | Sirius | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:6`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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