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title: Vesta is the second most massive asteroid, and a giant impact on it… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics
description: Vesta is the second most massive asteroid, and a giant impact on it blasted off rock that still falls to Earth as meteorites. Who acts: Vesta, giant impact, rock. A sentence of the lesson «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Asteroids and the asteroid belt, sentence 10

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Vesta is the second most massive asteroid, and a giant impact on it blasted off rock that still falls to Earth as meteorites.

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**Who acts:** Vesta, giant impact, rock · **What happens:** be, blast off, fall · **To what, where:** second massive asteroid, rock, Earth

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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 (Vesta, giant impact, rock), 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:10
# text = Vesta is the second most massive asteroid, and a giant impact on it blasted off rock that still falls to Earth as meteorites.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Vesta	Vesta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	impact	impact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	blasted	blast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	meteorites	meteorite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Vesta | the second massive asteroid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **blast off** | past | a giant impact on belt | rock |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | present | rock |  | Earth |  | still | as meteorites | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to earth=Pivot |

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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:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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