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title: The belt is mostly empty space, with asteroids usually hundreds of t… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics
description: The belt is mostly empty space, with asteroids usually hundreds of thousands of kilometres apart. Who acts: belt. 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 every clause.
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# Asteroids and the asteroid belt, sentence 7

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The belt is mostly empty space, with asteroids usually hundreds of thousands of kilometres apart.

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**Who acts:** belt · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** empty space

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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 (belt), 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:7
# text = The belt is mostly empty space, with asteroids usually hundreds of thousands of kilometres apart.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
10	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
11	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | the belt | empty space |  |  |  | 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:7`.

**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/).

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