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title: Seen from Voyager 1 six billion kilometres away, the whole Earth was… — The Earth as a planet · tree and pragmatics
description: Seen from Voyager 1 six billion kilometres away, the whole Earth was a pale blue dot smaller than a single pixel. Who acts: whole Earth. A sentence of the lesson «The Earth as a planet» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Earth as a planet, sentence 4

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Seen from Voyager 1 six billion kilometres away, the whole Earth was a pale blue dot smaller than a single pixel.

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**Who acts:** whole Earth · **What happens:** see, be · **To what, where:** Voyager, pale blue dot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Earth as a planet» 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 (whole Earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:005-the-earth-as-a-planet.lesson:4
# text = Seen from Voyager 1 six billion kilometres away, the whole Earth was a pale blue dot smaller than a single pixel.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 005-the-earth-as-a-planet.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Voyager	Voyager	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl:unmarked
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	dot	dot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pixel	pixel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **see** | participle | the whole Earth *not said here* |  |  | Voyager |  | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the whole Earth | a pale blue dot |  |  |  |  | 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:005-the-earth-as-a-planet.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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