--- title: Most of them circle the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Ju… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics description: Most of them circle the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but it is not like the crowded rock fields of films: the belt is so empty that spacecraft fly through without dodging anything. Who acts: Most, Sun, belt, spacecraft. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most, Sun, belt, spacecraft), 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:1 # text = Most of them circle the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but it is not like the crowded rock fields of films: the belt is so empty that spacecraft fly through without dodging anything. # 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): no change 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 circle circle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 asteroid asteroid NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 between between ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Jupiter Jupiter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 crowded crowded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 spacecraft spacecraft NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 36 through through ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 without without SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 dodging dodge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 39 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **circle** | present | Most of planets | the Sun | | the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Co-Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Sun | | | | | like the crowded rock fields; of films | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the belt | | | | | empty *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fly** | present | spacecraft | | | | | through *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **dodge** | gerund | the belt *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent anything=Location | 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:009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.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): no change. **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: [Asteroids and the asteroid belt, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/0/) - next →: [Asteroids and the asteroid belt, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/)