--- title: It is about half the Earth's width, and its day is almost like ours,… — Mars · tree and pragmatics description: It is about half the Earth's width, and its day is almost like ours, only 40 minutes longer, but its thin air is mostly carbon dioxide and it is far colder than Antarctica on average. Who acts: bike, day, thin air. A sentence of the lesson «Mars» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/8-mars/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [Mars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/8-mars/) / 1 # Mars, sentence 1 It is about half the Earth's width, and its day is almost like ours, only 40 minutes longer, but its thin air is mostly carbon dioxide and it is far colder than Antarctica on average. **Who acts:** bike, day, thin air · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** width, carbon dioxide, average This is a sentence of the lesson «Mars» 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 (bike, day, thin air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:008-mars.lesson:1 # text = It is about half the Earth's width, and its day is almost like ours, only 40 minutes longer, but its thin air is mostly carbon dioxide and it is far colder than Antarctica on average. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 008-mars.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 4 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 8 det:predet _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 width width NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 almost almost ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 35 colder cold ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 conj _ _ 36 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 average average NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | bike | the Earth's width but carbon dioxide | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | bike's day | | | | | like ours; almost, long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | bike's thin air | carbon dioxide | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | bike | | | average | | than Antarctica; cold, far *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:008-mars.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Mars, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/8-mars/0/) - next →: [Mars, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/8-mars/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/8-mars/)