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title: So Venus is hotter than Mercury, about 465 degrees everywhere, day a… — Venus · tree and pragmatics
description: So Venus is hotter than Mercury, about 465 degrees everywhere, day and night, and the air presses down as hard as the sea 900 metres deep. Who acts: Venus, air. A sentence of the lesson «Venus» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Venus, sentence 2

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So Venus is hotter than Mercury, about 465 degrees everywhere, day and night, and the air presses down as hard as the sea 900 metres deep.

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**Who acts:** Venus, air · **What happens:** be, press down · **To what, where:** sea metres

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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, air), 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:2
# text = So Venus is hotter than Mercury, about 465 degrees everywhere, day and night, and the air presses down as hard as the sea 900 metres deep.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	465	465	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound
20	presses	press	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	900	900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	_
28	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | present | Venus |  |  |  |  | than Mercury; 465 degrees  day and night *obl:unmarked*; hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **press down** | present | the air | sea metres |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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:004-venus.lesson:2`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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