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title: All the belt's asteroids together weigh only about 3 percent of our… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics
description: All the belt's asteroids together weigh only about 3 percent of our Moon; Jupiter's strong pull stopped them ever joining into a planet. Who acts: asteroids, strong pull, Jupiter. A sentence of the lesson «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Asteroids and the asteroid belt, sentence 2

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All the belt's asteroids together weigh only about 3 percent of our Moon; Jupiter's strong pull stopped them ever joining into a planet.

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**Who acts:** asteroids, strong pull, Jupiter · **What happens:** weigh, stop, join, pull · **To what, where:** 3 percent, Asteroids

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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, strong pull, Jupiter), 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:2
# text = All the belt's asteroids together weigh only about 3 percent of our Moon; Jupiter's strong pull stopped them ever joining into a planet.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	weigh	weigh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
10	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
23	joining	join	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **weigh** | present | the belt's asteroids | 3 percent of our Moon |  |  |  | together *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme percent=Value |
| 2 | **stop** | past | Jupiter's strong pull | Asteroids *= asteroid* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **join** | gerund | Jupiter's strong pull *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | into a planet | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient into planet=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **pull** |  | Jupiter |  |  |  |  |  | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:2`.

**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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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