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title: The Earth is the only place in the universe where we know life exist… — The Earth as a planet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth is the only place in the universe where we know life exists, and the only planet known to have liquid water oceans on its surface. Who acts: Earth, we, life. 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 pragm
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# The Earth as a planet, sentence 6

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The Earth is the only place in the universe where we know life exists, and the only planet known to have liquid water oceans on its surface.

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**Who acts:** Earth, we, life · **What happens:** be, know, exist, have · **To what, where:** only place, universe, only planet, liquid water oceans, surface · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Earth, we, life), 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:6
# text = The Earth is the only place in the universe where we know life exists, and the only planet known to have liquid water oceans on its surface.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	universe	universe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
20	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	oceans	ocean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | the Earth | the only place and the only planet |  | the universe |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **exist** | present | life |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  | the only planet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | liquid water oceans |  | planet's surface |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient |

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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:6`.

**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): 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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