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title: Some asteroids are dark and rich in carbon, some are stony, and a fe… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics
description: Some asteroids are dark and rich in carbon, some are stony, and a few are mostly metal, like the asteroid Psyche. Who acts: asteroids, some, few. 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 pragmatics of eve
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# Asteroids and the asteroid belt, sentence 11

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Some asteroids are dark and rich in carbon, some are stony, and a few are mostly metal, like the asteroid Psyche.

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**Who acts:** asteroids, some, few · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** carbon, metal

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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, some, few), 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:11
# text = Some asteroids are dark and rich in carbon, some are stony, and a few are mostly metal, like the asteroid Psyche.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Psyche	Psyche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | present | some asteroids |  |  |  |  | like the asteroid Psyche; dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | some asteroids *not said here* |  |  | carbon |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | some |  |  |  |  | stony *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a few | metal |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |

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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:11`.

**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, 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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