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title: Asteroids are rocky or metallic leftovers from the birth of the Sola… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics
description: Asteroids are rocky or metallic leftovers from the birth of the Solar System, ranging from pebbles to hundreds of kilometres across. Who acts: Asteroids, leftovers. A sentence of the lesson «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Asteroids and the asteroid belt, sentence 5

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Asteroids are rocky or metallic leftovers from the birth of the Solar System, ranging from pebbles to hundreds of kilometres across.

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**Who acts:** Asteroids, leftovers · **What happens:** be, range · **To what, where:** pebbles

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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, leftovers), 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:5
# text = Asteroids are rocky or metallic leftovers from the birth of the Solar System, ranging from pebbles 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	metallic	metallic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod
6	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Solar	solar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	System	System	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	ranging	range	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	across	across	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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** | present | Asteroids |  |  |  |  | rocky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Asteroids *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **range** | gerund | leftovers from the birth of the Solar System *not said here* |  |  | pebbles to hundreds of kilometres |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from pebble=Location |

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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:5`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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