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title: Sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach the Earth and moo… — Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach the Earth and moonlight about 1.3 seconds. Who acts: Sunlight. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★, sentence 7

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Sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach the Earth and moonlight about 1.3 seconds.

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**Who acts:** Sunlight · **What happens:** take, reach · **To what, where:** Earth

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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 (Sunlight), 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:7
# text = Sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach the Earth and moonlight about 1.3 seconds.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
15	1.3	1.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **take** | present | Sunlight |  |  |  | second |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Sunlight *not said here* | the Earth and moonlight |  |  | second |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent earth=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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**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:7`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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