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title: Curiosity found smooth, rounded pebbles like those in a stream, a si… — Mars · tree and pragmatics
description: Curiosity found smooth, rounded pebbles like those in a stream, a sign that water once flowed there. Who acts: Curiosity, water. A sentence of the lesson «Mars» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mars, sentence 13

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Curiosity found smooth, rounded pebbles like those in a stream, a sign that water once flowed there.

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**Who acts:** Curiosity, water · **What happens:** find, flow · **To what, where:** smooth rounded pebbles, sign

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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 (Curiosity, water), 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:13
# text = Curiosity found smooth, rounded pebbles like those in a stream, a sign that water once flowed there.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	rounded	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
18	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **find** | past | Curiosity | smooth rounded pebbles |  |  |  | like those | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic |
| 2 | **flow** | past | water | a sign *not said here* |  | there |  | once *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sign=Theme |

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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:008-mars.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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