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title: From the Earth it is the brightest thing in the night sky after the… — Venus · tree and pragmatics
description: From the Earth it is the brightest thing in the night sky after the Moon, so bright that people sometimes report it as a UFO. Who acts: sun, people. 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 4

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From the Earth it is the brightest thing in the night sky after the Moon, so bright that people sometimes report it as a UFO.

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**Who acts:** sun, people · **What happens:** be, report · **To what, where:** brightest thing, Earth, sun

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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 (sun, people), 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:4
# text = From the Earth it is the brightest thing in the night sky after the Moon, so bright that people sometimes report it as a UFO.
# 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	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	report	report	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	UFO	ufo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | sun | the brightest thing |  | the Earth |  | in the night sky after the Moon | tree rules |
| 2 | **report** | present | people | sun |  |  |  | as a UFO; sometimes *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as ufo=Attribute |

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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:4`.

**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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