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title: Asteroids are the leftover building blocks from when the planets for… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics
description: Asteroids are the leftover building blocks from when the planets formed, lumps of rock and metal from pebble size up to hundreds of kilometres across. Who acts: Asteroids. A sentence of the lesson «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Asteroids and the asteroid belt, sentence 0

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Asteroids are the leftover building blocks from when the planets formed, lumps of rock and metal from pebble size up to hundreds of kilometres across.

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**Who acts:** Asteroids · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** leftover building blocks, planets

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» 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 (Asteroids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.lesson:0
# text = Asteroids are the leftover building blocks from when the planets formed, lumps of rock and metal from pebble size up to hundreds of kilometres across.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.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	Asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	leftover	leftover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	lumps	lump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	pebble	pebble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	across	across	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	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 | Asteroids | the leftover building blocks and lumps of rock from pebble size up hundreds of kilometres and metal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | past · passive |  | the planets |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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:009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.lesson:0`.

**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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