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title: After the Moon, Venus is the brightest natural object in the night s… — Venus · tree and pragmatics
description: After the Moon, Venus is the brightest natural object in the night sky, often called the Morning Star or Evening Star, though it is a planet, not a star. Who acts: Venus, sky. A sentence of the lesson «Venus» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Venus, sentence 12

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After the Moon, Venus is the brightest natural object in the night sky, often called the Morning Star or Evening Star, though it is a planet, not a star.

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**Who acts:** Venus, sky · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** brightest natural object, night sky, planet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Venus» 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, sky), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:004-venus.lesson:12
# text = After the Moon, Venus is the brightest natural object in the night sky, often called the Morning Star or Evening Star, though it is a planet, not a star.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 004-venus.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	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
9	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Morning	Morning	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Evening	Evening	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | Venus | the brightest natural object |  | the night sky | after the Moon |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the brightest natural object *not said here* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | sky | a planet and a star |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:004-venus.lesson:12`.

**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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