--- title: Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, about 940 kilometr… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics description: Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, about 940 kilometres across, big enough for its gravity to pull it round, so it is classed as a dwarf planet. Who acts: Ceres. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ceres), 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:9 # text = Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, about 940 kilometres across, big enough for its gravity to pull it round, so it is classed as a dwarf 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ceres Ceres PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 asteroid asteroid NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 940 940 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked 14 across across ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 17 enough enough ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 round round ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 classed class VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 30 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 dwarf dwarf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 planet planet NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Ceres | the largest object | | the asteroid belt | | across *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pull** | to-infinitive | Ceres *not said here* | belt | | | | round *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **class** | present · passive | | belt | | | | as a dwarf planet *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme as planet=Goal | 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. **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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [Asteroids and the asteroid belt, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/8/) - next →: [Asteroids and the asteroid belt, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/)